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I messed around with the shock pressures a lot, starting at the recommended
pressure front and rear and then taking my own route. As Dave mentioned with
the Debonaire can in the Monarch, it took some extreme changes in pressure to
feel a difference.
I can usually jump on a bike and ride it without a perfect setup up for me and
get a good sense of where I need to make changes. The Slash was giving me
mixed signals on that and I never was able to get that feel of being centred,
never comfortable to fully commit on it. 10 rides in and I was still messing
with setup.
Maybe with more time I could have got to that sweet spot but really who has
the time to do that every time they go and ride. If you are like the average
rider out there you maybe want to spend 2, possibly 3 rides dealing in a new
bike and then you just want to go ride the damned thing and enjoy it.
Especially if your ride time is precious.
I think it is telling that the Trek racers all choose the Remedy 29er for
their race rigs. I really thing that if Trek can drop the bottom bracket on
the Slash by 0.5″ that would help.
July 17, 2015, 8:59 a.m. - Jonathan Harris
#!markdown I messed around with the shock pressures a lot, starting at the recommended pressure front and rear and then taking my own route. As Dave mentioned with the Debonaire can in the Monarch, it took some extreme changes in pressure to feel a difference. I can usually jump on a bike and ride it without a perfect setup up for me and get a good sense of where I need to make changes. The Slash was giving me mixed signals on that and I never was able to get that feel of being centred, never comfortable to fully commit on it. 10 rides in and I was still messing with setup. Maybe with more time I could have got to that sweet spot but really who has the time to do that every time they go and ride. If you are like the average rider out there you maybe want to spend 2, possibly 3 rides dealing in a new bike and then you just want to go ride the damned thing and enjoy it. Especially if your ride time is precious. I think it is telling that the Trek racers all choose the Remedy 29er for their race rigs. I really thing that if Trek can drop the bottom bracket on the Slash by 0.5″ that would help.