IndyGearGuide.com is sending crews to Interbike next month and Cedia Expo. We should have some great product information in September and October.
Monday, August 29, 2011
IGG headed to Mt. Assiniboine!
We'll have a group in the Canadian Rockies the next ten days trying out gear. They are hiking in the Mt. Assiniboine area from Sunshine Ski area to Canmore, then biking north of Banft in the Jasper area. We'll have some great product reviews coming! Get your products in and we'll reveiw them on a "Real Adventure, Real People"™ outing.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Fox Vanilla Float-R - 10 YEARS LATER!
Check back this month I'll be reviewing my Fox Vanilla Floar-R after 10 years of use on my Cannondale Super-V 800.
The Super-V 800 had a radical swingarm design that shows much evidence of its older motorcycle brothers. The vectors on the geometry were obviously much more extreme than the 1999 factory Fox shock could handle. I was pumping 300 lbs. into a shock at my body weight of 185 lbs. just to have a 1/2" of sag.
I explained this to Fox and they sold me the new design (with larger chamber) at cost. The difference was obvious. The new shock takes pound-for-pound rider weight. At 160 lbs. now I ride with just above my weight in the shock for a stiff ride, and just under for a softer ride.
I'll be back with more and some pictures of the shock along with my rebuild of it last year.
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