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Choosing a rear shock for a new bike built from scratch can be a hit or miss. Most manufacturers spec their bikes with shock tuned specifically for a particular frame’s kinematics.When buying something on your own, you have to make sure that the stock tune fits with your frame or else you’ll have to get a custom tune to get the best performance. The frame that I was building up (’20 Commencal Meta AM 29) was sold without a shock, but their stock builds came with air or coil shocks. Right from the start, I knew I wanted to use...

Put this on my 2019 Transition Patrol to upgrade the Rockshox Monarch air shock. I absolutely put that RS Monarch through the paces, with lots of sustained downhill runs and multiple large huck to flat hits. My issue with it was that it would start acting like it would lock out towards the bottom of a run and I couldnt get full travel out of it. I am sure its because the pressures were varying wildly inside from top to bottom as it started heating up, so I started looking at coil options. I picked the DVO Jade X for...