Hi Brian,
The HLR damper being a bled unit as long as the oil volumes and valving tune are the same - which they are with the McQueen HLR - performance will be identical.
Air springs of the same design can feel quite different translated from one fork to another if the volumes are changing; however, since the McQueen HLR is using 34mm OD stanchions and X-Fusion is very smart about inter-compatibility in marketing (less SKUs | less costs) I think it would be fair to say that a 140mm McQueen is essentially a boosted Trace HLR and performance will be the same.
The nice thing about systems that use a coil negative spring is you can add a few ml of oil to the primary air spring if you want the fork a bit more progressive.
March 27, 2017, 5:37 p.m. - Andrew Major
Hi Brian, The HLR damper being a bled unit as long as the oil volumes and valving tune are the same - which they are with the McQueen HLR - performance will be identical. Air springs of the same design can feel quite different translated from one fork to another if the volumes are changing; however, since the McQueen HLR is using 34mm OD stanchions and X-Fusion is very smart about inter-compatibility in marketing (less SKUs | less costs) I think it would be fair to say that a 140mm McQueen is essentially a boosted Trace HLR and performance will be the same. The nice thing about systems that use a coil negative spring is you can add a few ml of oil to the primary air spring if you want the fork a bit more progressive.