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giant factory video with jewett bros.

I've had it through the shop and dyno'd but not personally ridden on the trail yet. I like the solid main piston (its not a mid valve on a shock) because it helps the damping to respond faster and balance the pressures more predictably. I think mixing a shimmed main piston in a twin tube is either to help it move faster (reducing low speed damping) or combined with preload as a high speed "blow off". The downside is if the shims are too soft the adjusters are very ineffective, the lag in damper response can increase harshness/knocking and if...

Yup thats pretty bang on - the telum system is dang close to re-shimming the piston and in actual fact probably behaves more like what you think reshimming a shock does . The Telum makes a clear change to the gradient of the curve, and only that where as changing shims often has multiple changes in the force and speed that the shims open. VVC is frustratingly sensitive to tolerance - the tiniest change in preload on the leaf spring has a massive effect on damping. If you set it up with close to zero preload the adjuster does almost...

Oh yeah I also mean to talk about adjusters vs reshimming - you should always exhaust the full range of the adjusters you have first, which comes after bracketing your spring rates/air pressures. A lot of people get led down the wrong path of making some assumption with spring rate and volume spacers (ie soft spring + too many tokens or vise versa) so if its too soft they will never get the damper rebounding fast enough and think they need a faster rebound tune, or maybe stiffer compression tune. Where if the spring was set better you might not...

I don't have full sweeps of the latest tunes from Fox and Rockshox but this plot is a rough approximation of where the tunes sit - generally there isn't really a nice match between the 2 brands, Fox shocks also vary wildly from year to year and each models also has very different characteristics. Rockshox has had fairly similar damping profiles (at least on compression) since the super deluxe launched, and even the Monarch Plus wasn't too different. They were slightly digressive, with the adjuster mostly changing the overall force but the newer 2025 shocks seem to be more linear...

When you order it, it does actually come tuned for you already. But since a lot of people love tinkering with their setups, we figured we'd try to make it easier rather than obstruct their efforts.

I think the Medium is probably for a kid on the smaller end to grow into. I don’t see someone 5’9” starting on a Scout even though they’re in the recommended size range. If you’re already in the size range of “adult” bikes then you should start there. In my opinion, dual 27.5 bikes for average sized riders (and larger) are pointless; and they are dying out for a good reason. Unless you’re doing X-ups and barspins you’re not going to notice the loss of “playfullness” with a mullet and you will benefit from the extra rollover. That’s my hot...