That’s how I set my Soul up and the chainline is bang on. My understanding of the spacer on the drive side was to account for setups that use a bb mounted mech or chain device. If you do, replace the spacer with said bb mounted device. I guess you could use it to adjust chainline a bit but it’s a bit of a kludge.

1 spacer on the drive side only is correct for all bikes with a 73mm bb.

Enjoy the Soul! Cracking bike 🙂

Bravo sir, bravo

Yeah sure, take what you want down, no problems.

Sounds like you’re heading in the right direction. I forgot to mention that I also run a little less negative pressure than on the positive side.

How did the fork feel at 90/-70? What weight are you and what travel do you have the Reba set to?

Another comment I could make. Stiffly sprung with a fair amount of low speed compression will lose a little bit of small bump compliance but will handle rough stuff well. It will actually help you fatigue less on rough trails. Softer, more compliant forks will be more sensitive and help with traction when wet but get uncontrolled in rough and/ or steep terrain.

I favor the former rather than the latter but I batter into stuff in a somewhat cavalier manner.

I have a Revelation RLT Ti but it’s still a Rockshox air fork with an awful manul 🙂

I found that a Rockshox air fork with generous sag (33%) dives and blows through its travel A LOT. Consequently I run my 130mm Rev with only 20 – 25% sag, when standing on the bike in an attack position.

Then I added rebound damping. I just started slowing the fork while bouncing it in the carpark. I eyeball my rebound to get it the way I like it. Somewhere between medium and slow. I can certainly hear a lot of oil running through the ports as the fork extends – it slurps.

Finally I just muck about with my compression dial to control how active my fork is. I adjust it while riding quite a lot. I use between 3 and 5 clicks regularly, depending on the terrain. 5 for smooth, man made, swoopy stuff. 3 for rough stuff where the fork needs to be a bit more active. Less than three clicks can allow the fork to dive a little to much under braking on descents.

Oh and floodgate on full. Hope that helps a little.

I don’t think you have anything to worry about. I had this exact issue with a rear SLX brake when I built my new bike up two months ago.

After seeing uneven contact on the disc I double checked the calliper alignment and all was good. I just went for a 3 hour ride and by the end the pads were bedded in and making proper contact with the disc braking surface.

From the photo you have it looks like you the disc is running through the calliper correctly. Give it a little time to bed in.

Didn’t catch the racing but I saw the podiums for the World Cup overalls. What happened to Stevie Smith’s ankle? Looked nasty as it was blowing up like a balloon!

am not into bmx,but really liking that lawn 😀

FTFY