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Edit: jokes, of course, but good luck finding a spring for your shiny new Super Deluxe Coil. I was told I'd be waiting until October...
somebody accidentally broke embargo.... post is deleted and link in bio leads to a website error
https://www.sram.com/en/rockshox/series/super-deluxe
https://www.sram.com/en/rockshox/series/lyrik
And the rest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24-yB4Setus
our full feature that goes into the forks and shocks here - https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/RockShoxs-2023-Suspension,3731
Am I the only one enjoying the sounds the Charger 2 RC2 Lyrik makes?
https://bikerumor.com/pro-bike-check-aaron-gwins-prototype-intense-downhill-bike-with-i-track-suspension/
Its still IFP but there are visible differences between charger
It is unfortunate to some extent, it does create more SKUs, but it's the name of the game.
The needle (for air shocks, the damper body for the coils, so swap that around below) is x mm long and engages y mm off the top. The same y for a 57,5 mm and for a 65 mm stroke shock. If we say the last 5 mm of the stroke are HBOd (didn't look at any numbers, so guestimating here), keeping the same needle in the above move would mean 12,5 mm of stroke would be overdamped on a 65 mm shock, which is almost 20 % (vs. the 8 % at 57,5 mm).
While unfortunate, as I mentioned, on the other hand, how often is the stroke changed on shocks in the real world? Honestly I don't think it's that big of an issue from an SKU standpoint... I think it would be much more beneficial to be able to buy different damper tunes or at least original shims aftermarket than have a single SKU covering all the strokes.
The coil especially can get into a situation where you have metal-on-metal contact if you took a 57.5 shock and cut the reducers out to make it go to 65 stroke. Basically to have all the shocks get the last 20% of stroke have HBO you need to lengthen internal parts as a 57.5 shock stops 7.5mm further apart than a 65 stroke shock.
If you did the same to the air shock it would have the HBO active for way more than the last 20% of stroke and sag graphics would be off.
Sag graphics are off in the current generation if you change the stroke anyway, so anyone prepared to do that wouldn't (shouldn't) care too much about that...
yeah- sag graphics will be off if you swap travel anyways.
In either case, you'll be buying parts and tearing apart the shock to change travel.
However, if you bought an overly long shock and you spaced down the stroke, the worst that would happen is that you've lost the HBO function.
Cable routing and dt kink look very un-Trek like to me too.