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Your 11-speed derailleur is a 10-speed long cage

Zeb and 38 creak at the crown/CSU at least as quick as any Lyrik or 36. Press it out, loctite it and you're good. No CSU swap or bigger stanchions will ever fix that problem longterm in our experience over about 50-100 forks from different manufacturers.

Thin SuperTrail sidewalls on the back did hold up but Soft rubber was too hard?

OneUp engineered the V2 a bit weird (the upper bushing is responsible for restricting the max travel of the post). So therefore the travel pins always crash into that bushing until they wander into it (which doesn´t take long). Problem: As soon as they do, the posts gets stuck somewhere in travel as the bushing is heavily deformed and hinders the posts movement.

Sliced both a Grid Trail and Blck Dmnd in record time, and als flatted (snakebites) the Grid Trail 3-4 times in a few weeks although I ran them with Nukeproof ARD.

I really liked the hard wearing compound and their feel on trail, but I haven´t flatted Magic Mary Super Gravitys for 4 years straight before with the same setup.

Now a photo of her, the dogs and the bike all packed into the car

Availability of spare parts is one thing, pricing is another...

f.ex. 100$ for these parts 

https://dvosuspension.com/product/topaz-damper-body/ 

https://dvosuspension.com/product/axle/

Glad that I'm still within the warranty period with my current ratio of 1 rebuild every 1-2months of usage of my Topaz

I´ve bought the "Giant Sixpack+1 Maestro Bearing Tool Kit" and it works perfectly fine (for all of Giant frame´s bearings at least) for extracting and pressing in.

https://www.giant-bicycles.com/gb/giant-sixpackplus1-maestro-bearing-tool-kit

Cube etc sell bikes with this spec for ~ 500€.