Dammit’s adventures in mountain biking

I'll buy another bottle at lunch then, cheers.

You know there's Google, right?

FTFY

Rear shock is a “Fox Float Performance DPS EVOL SV, 3 Position Adjust”, those three positions are:

• Open
  
• Medium
  -Firm
  
  

If left in Open it will move to Medium when crossing rough ground. Some Googling shows that this is a known problem for the shock. Anyone else had this?

No lock out ?

Is that a weak detent set up. Remove lever, apply heavy sticky grease, refit lever, old school bodge that may or may not work with current items.

I imagine “Firm” is the closest you get to lockout, it’s what I use when riding on the road to/from the trail.

It does feel like the detent is too shallow, a very light touch sees the lever flick from Open to Medium - it’s as if it’s sprung, and wants to Centre on Medium

Tape it open, shred. Climb switches are for stupid big enduro bikes with poor suspension kinematics.

^ or use thick grease.

Tbh it's probably a warranty job :/

I guess this is what happens when you don't learn to ride on a hardtail first :(

Is this the right place to ask this? My GF's dad is really really into canicross (competitive running with a dog strapped to you with a harness). He's having some achilles issues which is stopping him running, so wants to take up bikejor. - much like canicross, but instead of strapping the dog to yourself, you strap it to your mountain bike. He's asked me to help him work out which bike he should get for it but I really don't have a clue about mountain bikes! He's gonna mainly be using it on fire roads and trails. Nothing in the way of elevation or descents and he thinks he wants a dropper seatpost and he needs some really decent disc brakes. Budget is probs up to a grand and it's gonna need to be majority OTP. Can anyone suggest anything that will do the job for him?

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Can anyone suggest anything that will do the job for him?

Pretty much any alu 29er from any of the major brands will do the job. If he has a friendly LBS that could look after him I'd start there, simply because it makes looking after the bike so much easier; less time dicking around, more time riding with dogue

I'm spamming multiple threads now. Here's the shock, put the sound on and see what strikes you about it as the lever goes through it's range of motion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVcgHPPY5WQ

Mesmerising

Thank you kindly! Will pass this on.

Weak thumb at 14s?

Got a response (which I had to chase them for), looks like the shock needs to go to Silverfish, for an unspecified length of time.

In normal world, what should happen here is that Fox send you a new shock that works, and you just return them this one. Has a beautiful sense of simplicity to it doesn't it?

I'd have a chat to Mario about it, see if he knows how long it might be away for and why. It might be possible that silverfish ship him new guts and he just fits it and returns it to you.

It's probably about time the dropper post had a service too.

What's it like to ride in 'medium' anyway?

Well, I did 65km/h down Butser and it felt great - and that was in "firm".

= I'd forgotten to change it after the road section beforehand.

Promised an update today- probably safe to say that it’s not coming now.

I’ll call them tomorrow morning to chase. Joy

I called Silverfish direct, chap said he saw this fault every now and again on DPS Performance, but never on the DPS Factory (featuring the ever popular low speed compression adjustment, THE subject of conversation for any MTB fan), and that it would be 7 working days for them to strip/adjust the shock I have.

I then called Pauls, and suggested that I pay the difference between the Performance and the Factory, if they then posted me a Factory and I posted them my Performance in return, ergo no downtime.

Waiting for a response on that.

Then how long before you need the matching factory forks?

How about this.

Ride it as it is, if the medium setting is fine. From reading around, some users of this shock never use the open setting anyway.

Get about fifty - seventy five hours on it. The problem might fix itself (Hah!).

Post it off to Silverfish for warranty repair & service and kill two birds with one stone.

While this hot mess resolves its self, you should buy a hard tail

yeah do what howard says, it's hardly the end of the world, silly upgrading a shock after 1 damn ride

They told me to get fucked (politely) anyway.