Great job figuring out the negative chamber volume increase as the culprit for low ride height! I was going to go comment on that but then you talked about it yourself :) Most people just think that huge negative volume with higher pressure is the key to everything, because thats what the 'industry' is pushing for the medias to hype.. In my opinion you need more compression damping when running less travel, not less. Also agree on the offset being very important, I tested my element with shorter fork which had 51mm offset instead of 44mm and it felt horrible, long offset with slack head angle just does'nt work.
hey, could you explain this to me? i've been the proud owner of a rxf38 170mm for about two months now. i weigh about 80kg fully kitted and run the fork without the spacer. i dont know how it feels without it. i have not had issues with low ride height, i think. i used to run a zeb with a luft fusion and hsc closed to have a fork that stays up nice and high in its travel. the öhlins isn't any worse in that regard. i run 135/220 psi (equates to around 15% sag-ish? i don't really go by that), hsc in the firm setting, lsc 9 clicks, rebound 12 klicks (both from closed). the fork feels supple, very supportive. also harmonises well with the ttx22m.2 i'm running in the rear.
Changing stem doesn't counteract the trail offset in a fork. I tried a 51mm offset fork last month, super light steering and no self centering steering especially when on side knobs. I took the fork off within a week, it was nice on tarmac but even though steering effort went down I had to manually correct so much more
Good timing for this video. I've been thinking of putting a DH38 on a Kavenz. After riding the RXF38 and DH38 do you think it's worth the slight weight penalty to run the dual crown over the RXF38?
what compression valving have you on this fork( C20 ,C30,C40 or more) and what is your weight? I ve ridind single crown RXF38 m2 with C2 compression and it s perfect even if I m 68 kgs
hello, I've been riding my dreadnought for a bit over a year now and recently I've been looking into changing my zebs to boxxers as I ride a lot of downhill at fort william in scotland. Do you think this conversion would be worth it, if so would I need a conversion kit to do so.
If your riding bike park more then your pedaling and you like the feel of the dreadnought I think the dual crown would be a good option. I think you’d want a 180 or 190mm fork to preserve the geometry.
In this case I was more comfortable with my single crown. I think with the correct offset and a different tune the dual crown would probably be better on tracks like this
Great job figuring out the negative chamber volume increase as the culprit for low ride height! I was going to go comment on that but then you talked about it yourself :) Most people just think that huge negative volume with higher pressure is the key to everything, because thats what the 'industry' is pushing for the medias to hype.. In my opinion you need more compression damping when running less travel, not less. Also agree on the offset being very important, I tested my element with shorter fork which had 51mm offset instead of 44mm and it felt horrible, long offset with slack head angle just does'nt work.
hey, could you explain this to me? i've been the proud owner of a rxf38 170mm for about two months now. i weigh about 80kg fully kitted and run the fork without the spacer. i dont know how it feels without it. i have not had issues with low ride height, i think. i used to run a zeb with a luft fusion and hsc closed to have a fork that stays up nice and high in its travel. the öhlins isn't any worse in that regard.
i run 135/220 psi (equates to around 15% sag-ish? i don't really go by that), hsc in the firm setting, lsc 9 clicks, rebound 12 klicks (both from closed). the fork feels supple, very supportive. also harmonises well with the ttx22m.2 i'm running in the rear.
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Really good video.
Thanks!
Nice work 😁 👍
Thanks!
Changing stem doesn't counteract the trail offset in a fork. I tried a 51mm offset fork last month, super light steering and no self centering steering especially when on side knobs. I took the fork off within a week, it was nice on tarmac but even though steering effort went down I had to manually correct so much more
It doesn’t counteract it. But it makes it easier to wait the front wheel since the wheel is 10mm out further from you.
how is it compared to a boxxer? I got the ohlins coil and it performs better than any other shock I've ridden
Have you thought about getting a cascade link for more rear travel/progression?
Yeah, that would probably work well…
I’d love to try one! Just haven’t gotten the $$ and time to get around to it
You should try a vorsprung smashpot coil kit on one of the single crown forks it’s a pretty great system
I’d love to give it a go. Vorsprung makes awesome stuff and Steve is a rad dude.
Good timing for this video. I've been thinking of putting a DH38 on a Kavenz. After riding the RXF38 and DH38 do you think it's worth the slight weight penalty to run the dual crown over the RXF38?
If your doing full time bike park laps it would be sweet. For standard riding I think it would be a bit overkill.
Did you add adapter to convert hub to 20x110…
what compression valving have you on this fork( C20 ,C30,C40 or more) and what is your weight? I ve ridind single crown RXF38 m2 with C2 compression and it s perfect even if I m 68 kgs
this fork was c20. c40 is stock. Im 82 kgs
hello, I've been riding my dreadnought for a bit over a year now and recently I've been looking into changing my zebs to boxxers as I ride a lot of downhill at fort william in scotland. Do you think this conversion would be worth it, if so would I need a conversion kit to do so.
If your riding bike park more then your pedaling and you like the feel of the dreadnought I think the dual crown would be a good option. I think you’d want a 180 or 190mm fork to preserve the geometry.
So you were running 180mm front and 155 rearm travel?
Correct
Awesome video and deep dive! I would be curious to see how a dual crown enduro set up would be against a full downhill bike.
In this case I was more comfortable with my single crown. I think with the correct offset and a different tune the dual crown would probably be better on tracks like this
Hi a question, how to change travel from 200 to 180?
On this fork it is a different air spring.
Do you know what axle to crown measurement you were running
I dont unfortunately I’ll have the fork again soon and can measure it. Will be putting it on a future build
whats that on your shoe
A freely timing chip. set up the timing system but the chips had dead batteries
Do you like it more than Fox 40?
I haven’t ridden a fox 40 in a looong time
@@briancahal I ordered the Ohlins. I previously had the Fox 40.
@@jpmlns2008So what is your feeling in favor of Ohlins compared to Fox?