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TooTallTim
Tldr - I really like it
Yeah, I’m really happy with it. My initial thought was that it wasn’t really the night and day difference that I was expecting. It felt very plush but I wasn’t so sure that it was massively more plush than the air spring.
But after a few rides and dialling back the hydraulic bottom out, it really started to feel good. I think it just took a bit of adjusting to, it feels very active and in turn that made it feel a bit unsettling. I slowed the rebound and it felt much better.
I initially ran the bottom out to ramp up quite a lot, but I’ve now settled on it with much less bottom out resistance. So it feels much more linear through the stroke(as you’d expect with a coil) and I think that was part of the weird unsettling feeling I had at first.
I wasn’t able to test it back to back with another air fork so that made it hard to really say how it felt in comparison.
But I just got a Yari RC fork cheap on crc for my other bike. After comparing them, there’s just no question that the coil feels way more plush.
I’m tempted to try both a lower and higher spring rate. Right now it’s got a 50lbs and I have a 55lbs spring to try. If I find a 45lbs spring cheap, then I’ll probably get it just to see.
If you want to try any of those spring rates before buying them, let me know and I’ll lend them out.