I gotta come see these trails! It’s been a while since I’ve been on anything that my 140/130 Orange feels under equipped for. Some of the slabs at Blue Mt Park were close but only because of the compressions at the bottom.
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Avoid the Spark 960 alloy
The 2024 Fluid is now in Crab
Please do!
So just picked up oil and a rebuild kit for my fork today and when I was looking at the specs from Rockshox it shows that I need 140 mL of the 5 wt oil in the upper tube of the damper. Now the oil I bought only comes in a 120 mL container but I also have 120 mL of 15 wt that I got today.
Would it be dumb to just top off the 5 wt with some 15 wt or should I just go and buy another bottle of 5 wt and do it as intended.
So about 14% of your oil would be the wrong weight? I’d guess that this might just shift your damper settings a click or two, assuming the oils mix. But you should check that they’ll actually mix first, that nothing weird happens like separation or precipitates.
I did a quick calculation and assuming that they mix well it would be the equivalent of something like 6.4 wt.
alternatively I could send you some five year old oil in the proper weight. i don’t do my own suspension anymore and will never use this. free dollars
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The thread in which Tarck’s chemists build their own refinery.
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#seemsfine
@BEEutiful_Wednesday_DDS if you want to send it over I’d take it. I think I’ll be rebuilding another fork soon. I’ll DM you.
I do have some capillary viscometers available that I could check this stuff.
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yes please DM me, i don’t even have a rock shox fork anymore
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Jfc how does every pinkbike comments section turn into transphobia and sexism
I fucking hate it there
I was excited to see Katie Holden responded, but then it was more transphobe responses to her. 
The painted welds looks pretty hot.
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Ben will forever be the people’s champ <3
Honestly got teary eyed watching this.
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OK dirt people
Off the advice of Braden I’m probably gonna grab a Polygon T8 this week. Spec-wise it looks solid and sits squarely in budget, which isn’t much. But being an obsessive googler I have a list of alternatives on sale that maybe might be worth looking at? Outside of component spec I don’t really know what’s different for all these, given that my understanding of modern bike geometry is non-existent.
Would any of these be a better choice to start riding in the NW (ie a specific geo number difference or linkage whatever):
Canyon Spectral 5
Norco Fluid FS A3
Giant Trance X 29 2
Marin Rift Zone 29 2
I simply don’t know what I’m getting into.
WWTD?
polygon tektro brakes suck
either replace rotors or at least swap out the levers to Shimano
everything else is fine
stock tyres are too fat
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Norco fluid would probably be my pic for best geo but
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Polygon I think still would be tops if trying to keep it around 2k. I always liked them, and saw them ridden at various bike parks all over the east coast. Brakes are Shimano, ‘Shimano MT401 (F/R: 180mm) 4-Piston Calipers (F/R)’
Followed by the Canyon, esp if you want the pop of color. Larger diameter fork, but won’t be a big concern since the 34 is also solid for trail stuff, esp when getting started.
I think Trance 2 and Rift Zone 2 both have lesser forks that you don’t want to bother with.
Norco would be worth it only if you went up the A2 for spec that is worthy of getting rowdy on, but thats 3k.
oh they come with Shimano brakes now, my friends was speccd with tektro and they are heinous
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