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I ran avid/code rotors, developed a leak in the rear code lever, pulled the TRPs off my enduro bike and put them on my DH bike. i didn’t like them so I swapped the TRP pads to Shimano. Then swapped both rotors to bigger Magura’s. then gave up and put the front code back on and am dealing with the rear. The TRPs were on Shimano rotors on the enduro, but they didn’t see too many rides and had the stock pads. The MT5s on the same Shimano rotors feel pretty good already even with the stock pads.

Yeah, I have Shimano pads front and back. I gave up on the front pretty quick though. I’m still running the TRP rear, but I put an old code on the front for the majority of this season.

I bought the TRPs. They’ll probably end up on my hard tail. 

Not enough power for my liking in the bike park, and I’m 180lbs. I even tried upping the rotor size to old Magura’s that were 210 (?) front and 203 rear. 

Someone in the lift line at whistler asked me about them, and I replied that I was actually wanting to ask the guy beside me who also happened to have them what he thought because I was finding they didn’t have enough power. Guy beside me in the lift line was offended and told me yeah he has to brake with two fingers sometimes, but they have ample power. Dude that asked me responded that yeah, his kid had them and found they didn’t have enough power either. 

I bought a set of the Magura MT5s for a good price from Germany. They’re feeling more powerful than the TRPs so far on the enduro bike, and they were cheaper. They’re also mineral oil and have the plastic lever for cold days.  I’ll have them on the downhill bike next season, but it was too big of a pain to do the internal cable routing at the end of the season, especially considering I’d like to have them back on the enduro bike this winter.

I bought the TRPs. They’ll probably end up on my hard tail. 

Not enough power for my liking in the bike park, and I’m 180lbs. I even tried upping the rotor size to old Magura’s that were 210 (?) front and 203 rear. 

Someone in the lift line at whistler asked me about them, and I replied that I was actually wanting to ask the guy beside me who also happened to have them what he thought because I was finding they didn’t have enough power. Guy beside me in the lift line was offended and told me yeah he has to brake with two fingers sometimes, but they have ample power. Dude that asked me responded that yeah, his kid had them and found they didn’t have enough power either. 

I bought a set of the Magura MT5s for a good price from Germany. They’re feeling more powerful than the TRPs so far on the enduro bike, and they were cheaper. They’re also mineral oil and have the plastic lever for cold days.  I’ll have them on the downhill bike next season, but it was too big of a pain to do the internal cable routing at the end of the season, especially considering I’d like to have them back on the enduro bike this winter.

I'm between the Firm and Extra Firm in my Boxxer. I find the same as you with a little slipperier front end on the flow, but a better feeling in the tech (and jumps).  I found backing my low speed compression all the way out made a notable improvement once I went up in spring weight. I haven't touched any other settings after swapping, but I believe I probably should have tweaked rebound. I've been enjoying the fork set-up fast though.

I saw the last years (?) pink Specialized Demo on the back of a car this weekend. It really stands out and looks great! Definitely a bit brighter than the new enduro’s shade.

It's too bad they couldn't figure out the asymmetrical frames. I agree that I like the demo aesthetics on the Enduro, but can you imagine if it was the last generation aesthetics on the new Enduro!

Nice write-up Trevor and photos Deniz!

I run the opposite set-up as you, air in the back, and coil in the front. After reading AJ's detailed review, I think the reason I like my coil fork so much is because I replaced my stock damper with an Avalanche Cartridge. I don't have a problem with mid-stroke support.

#Enduro

I think Nina Hoffmann is going to be tough to beat next year. I'm assuming she'll be on a team.

In one of the Vallnord videos, Rachel made a comment that Gee warned Rachel, and other competitors were warned by their teammates, of the spot in the track where Hoffmann went down. Hoffman didn't have any teammate to warn her.

Having a season of experience, maybe a teammate to chat lines with, and someone to take care of navigating the venues should make Hoffman unstoppable.

Regarding Vali, Finn Iles commented in his vlog that he put a lot of pressure on himself to do extremely well his first year out of juniors, and he changed his approach for this year. It will be interesting to see if Vali Höll will take a season to get into the groove.

Hey nickel, how do you keep your hands warm when it's near freezing up in garbo?

This is my first season sans-gloves, and I find I'm using cold fingers as an excuse for riding like a hack.

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Posted by: Kieran

Posted by: ReductiMat

If anyone plans on coming over Thanksgiving weekend, and we have a sunny perfect day and you can do any Fitz lap in less than ten minutes, please let me know if you want to get an afternoon lesson. The buddy I've done this with can't do it this year.

We don't have to do the same trails at all. I will be jumping but you can go do Lower Joyride to your hearts content.

You get to do a Conner McGregor walk to the front of the stupidly long line all afternoon and it will be worth it if you like the bike park.

How much coin are you talking Matt?

I had an epic day in the park yesterday. Solo laps but still good fun. Finally got my jump groove back on after a summer of injury. Dwayne was so good to hit again!

Not hoping for terrible weather on Thanksgiving but it would be good if it looked questionable to keep most people out of the park.

I'm with you on a sketchy weather forecast for sure. Just no snow please!

It was just me and my buddy last year and I think it was around $100...

Yep, I’m interested! I’m not sure what day(s) I’ll be up yet though

I'm annoyed with myself I didn't head up there today. The weather didn't look promising, but it seems like it hasn't actually been too bad today.

I might bail on all of my Sunday plans to get up there tomorrow. How are the trails running?

Flatch to confirm if it's this?

https://theprovince.com/news/local-news/social-media-exposes-undermining-rogue-trail-builders-in-fraser-valley/wcm/77b95913-363b-458b-aa75-2979ad4365b9

The air spring is a much higher volume than your lyric because the positive air spring has the additional height of your head tube designed into it. This will make it more linear. 

If you’re not comfortable adding more tokens, you could swap the damper for something nicer (not another charger, but there’s a few aftermarket options). Anything with more oil is going to allow your damper to do more, and you’ll be relying less on the perfect spring settings. Craig from Avalanche is very confident in his product, and having spent two days with the Charger damper in my fork, I’m never selling the avalanche cartridge. 

If you’re not willing to give up on the Charger just yet, pull it apart and re-shim it for a more aggressive tune. It looks like you may need a vice to do this. Instructions are all online and should provide a little more information on what you’ll need.

Pump track looks like it’s pretty close to done! The jumps are super tough, had a bit of brake rub and was just barely making the middle line. I’ll tune things up and give it a go again once there’s sun in the forecast again. Hopefully the pump track will be done then too

Spank bars are the only ones I’ve ever broken. Probably just bad luck, but I haven’t bought a spank product ever again since there’s so many other offerings. 

That being said my friend rented a Whistler Rental bike with the vibrocore bars and said his arms/hands were surprisingly really good even though his fork was set up quite stiff. He felt they made a difference. 

I’m running an open-bath damper, a very stiff spring, and the renthal glue-on grips on normal chromag bars. I don’t have and problems with my hands, to a surprising degree. I’ve even put a 10 hour day in at the bike park. I’m not sure if it’s the damper or the grips that make the difference, but I won’t be changing my setup.

Thanks for the reminder and leading the train^.

For the lower mainlanders: Grand Fondo on Saturday. Sea to Sky delays early-4:30pm I believe.

If you have an air spring, all you need to do is stick a spacer in the negative spring. That's how all of the travel-adjust RockShox models used to work at least:

If you don't have any proper RockShox spacers laying around, PVC pipe works (but it's not quiet):

If you have an air spring, that's it. If you don't, you're going to have to cut your spring. I used a dremel:

I used a preload spacer to protect my top-cap, but that's about all there is to it:

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^^^ Nearly all of those ideas were achieved with my setup in the picture above! ;)

I too thought “just run a Boxxer”.

rwalters did you cut a bit of length off the spring, or is it air?