operating condition

[Carbon_Angus]

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n196/carbon_angus/090906_10351.jpg

Not fancy but I was recently in Yosemite and snapped this with my camera phone.

Mods have been a "Performance" carbon bar, a bottle cage (lame but, oh well) and a used WTB saddle.

The Way~Big and the long stem is purrfect for my height and proportions. My Oz will go to my son.

Simon..I can bind the rear Ti spring...easy...but then i weigh a bout 50# more than who the bike was built for. Used almost exclusively on pavement anyway. I never was hard-core and now just crusin' trying to keep the weight off.

Angus

[shovelon]

Simon..I can bind the rear Ti spring...easy...but then i weigh a bout 50# more than who the bike was built for.

Angus

I have been monkeying around with shocks quite a bit now.

The ODS and GDT coil shocks have this rubber sleeve that wraps around the shaft. It is a bottoming sleeve and assists the spring. One of these under your Ti spring might do the trick. I would surely use a shock boot like the lizard skin too.

Take a look at this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140027750724&indexURL=0&photoDisplayType=2#ebayphotohosting

Terry

[Simon]

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n196/carbon_angus/090906_10351.jpg



Simon..I can bind the rear Ti spring...easy...but then i weigh a bout 50# more than who the bike was built for. Used almost exclusively on pavement anyway. I never was hard-core and now just crusin' trying to keep the weight off.

Angus

Terrys idea seems an excellent solution,other than that maybe a custom replacement steel spring would
be a good bet,I know it would add weight but as your just crusin this shouldn't be much of a concern,
still very nice looking bike though.

Simon.

[Colin]

The ODS and GDT coil shocks have this rubber sleeve that wraps around the shaft. It is a bottoming sleeve and assists the spring.

Terry

It's a small MCU to stop the shock piston bottoming out, perhaps catastrophically.

[Carbon_Angus]

might just put a Genesis on it and be done with it...or lose 50#'s and be a stick like in high school....lol

[kiwi]

sure looks nice Angus.
Why not put a spring of your 857? on it

[Carbon_Angus]

sure looks nice Angus.
Why not put a spring of your 857? on it

I shipped  857 to Hammer.....

I have one from the Oz.. a blue mountain speed... damn my brain is really failing me...thanks I'll give it a go.

I have a Ti one here but think it's for the front fork. I stepped on it and it's pretty squishy and don't know if the thickness of the Ti vs Steel is any different.

believe me it is one sweet, sweet ride....for XC or just jamming the 'hood.

..and update the NR-1 on the "race bike" doesn't have long enough threads up the shock body to accept the longer nb2-350 spring that I dug up. The Oz spring...which is a Mountainspeed may work....still may pop for a genesis.