Posted by: Cheez1ts
Posted by: LoamtoHome
Already heard a particular user have gone through 3 CSU's.... high speed compression is also non existent. Vorsprung has a comprehensive breakdown of the fork. Boxxer at 180mm is the best option right now but it needs a lot of work to make it work... like 9 tokens. Hoping the new 38mm RS is better than the other options.
I have put very little thought into if this, but is this what would go into it?
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Buy a boxxer with desired offset (-$$$)
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Find a worn stanchion from one of the 2010+ boxxer models, you'll be sticking it 20mm deeper into the lowers anyway so the wear won't matter (-$)
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Find an air spring assembly from a Yari/Lyric (prevents you from needing to add any spacers below your boxxer's air spring) (-$)
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Drill a hole in the yari/lyric air spring (now it's not an air spring).
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Get a coil spring from the 2010+ Boxxers (-$)
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Assemble the coil and drilled air spring in your worn stanction
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Put that in your fork and drop your damper to match height
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Keep your original stanchion and air spring to re-assemble it correctly later for resale (+$$$)
Please do not use these as directions.
These are some seriously crazy thoughts on how to get a 180mm travel Boxxer! It's WAY easier than this. Here are the steps I took:
-Buy any air-sprung Boxxer 2019 or newer (I HIGHLY recommend getting one with the Charger 2.1 damper).
-Buy and install 180mm travel Debonair spring kit (it's cheap - like $60 and easy to install).
-Aaaaaand, you're done.
As stated above, I found getting the air spring right was a bit challenging. I'm not exactly sure why - I think when you drop the travel it does funny things to the air chamber volumes. Keep in mind that the Boxxer is ideally suited to a DH bike at 200mm travel, so getting it to work on an enduro bike at 180mm travel requires some tinkering. I experimented quite a bit, but have settled on 122psi with 9 tokens. This gives me fairly supple initial stroke with plenty of ramp-up and support. I'm running one click of HSC and quite a bit of LSC.
I'm really happy with the fork - only drawback I have found is that it's challenging to get a Boxxer-equipped trail bike into a North Shore car rack. Before I decided on the Boxxer, I briefly considered the Bartlett. Seeing the comments above, I'm glad I didn't go there.