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Now that is an interesting idea! Wonder if all the Nicolai owners got together they could get a mould made for bottle that fit ‘em?

Screen shot from Jesse's IG video. The new Vivid.

So... A Super Deluxe Coil? The battery on the new Reverb overlaps the seal collar. Definitely not the current one flipped around.

Is that a weight taped under the bb? And a storage door on the bottom of the down tube?

Sorry to thread hijack @Primoz but I know you love it... Progressive generates more force on big hits and remains open/fluttery feeling on small bump. I like that tune on all bikes so far. Linear is a close 2nd- hard to tell which tune you have (linear vs progressive) unless you do back-to-back testing on the same trail/same day/same bike/same shocks... Digressive is basically the opposite of progressive and Linear splits the 2 tunes.

Come on man. New SDLX has flat pistons (Comp, Rebound and Rebound Check)- it actually uses the the same main and check piston as old SDLX. Also the progressive rebound tune makes a progressive curve, linear tune makes a linear curve (line) and digressive makes a digressive curve. All easy to measure and see when you have the correct tools to do so. I'm not going to say it.

a) the MY23 one (or the correct one in general) is not in stock. b) the more important reason, I ordered the previous gen Super Deluxe (for the MY19 Stumpy) for 260 €. I'd call that a daylight robbery.

Primoz is talking about the current gen Stumpy EVO.

Primoz, why don't you just buy the 210x55 Super Deluxe RC2T instead of messing around with cutting the spacer our of the 52.5 version? I run the stock RC2T tune on the EVO.

you can run 55 or 57mm stroke on those bikes no problem, refer my Avi to the left. I killed 6 shocks on that bike. Great bike let down with one of the worst kinematics in recent MTB history, cascade link and or EXT Storia is the only solution.

It says progressive: https://r2-bike.com/ROCKSHOX-Rear-Shock-Super-Deluxe-Ultimate-RC2T-Debo… I thought about cutting the spacer, but as there's another metal shim in there besides the plastic spacer, cutting that cleanly might be a bit more cumbersome than the plastic one. So I'll likely open up the damper, it's going to take less than an hour... Rebuilding the tune isn't much of a problem if you have the shims at hand, which I don't. We'll try it out as is and go from there.

FYI the Fox Speshy RX tune for current Stumpy is light comp and firm rebound. Are you planning to cut the spacer off without taking the shock apart? Pretty easy to change the tune and rebuild those at home. I assume you mean "regressive" rebound for the current RX tune, as in preloaded. So the rebound on the shock you want to use will be quite a bit softer (faster). If it were me I'd pull the old shock apart and put a firmer rebound tune in it. The new bike has a higher leverage and you will be running...

the Rx tune is basically soft compression so LL is similar, I believe most prefer m/m though

That's taking the old joke about "holding customers hostage for spares" a bit far. So just buy the whole hub, use the freehub and keep the rest as spares. You'll use at least the bearings eventually.

Add in that they're charging for what they say is a free hub body... Unjustifiable. For real though, it's insane the price of a hub part.

I suspect it's similar to the Fox variable contact width leaf spring thing they us on VVC. But if Ohlins actually changes the clamp shim diameter, that is way cooler. I have one on the DH bike that will get pulled apart sometime soon now that the snow has melted a bit. We'll see what it looks like in there!

In the TTX22 shocks this is how they describe it. "Our first adjuster with alternate shim clamping diameters, the TTX22m compression valve enables a wide adjustment range with easy-click dial adjustment (no tools required)." In the TTX18 cartridge. "Öhlins forks feature a 4 position high-speed compression adjuster, providing 3 clicks of gradual compression adjustment and a fourth to use while climbing (lockout) utilising our variable clamp design." There is a quote from Steve at Vorsprung in the NSMB article and a picture but doesn't show the mechanism of how it works. The variable diameter clamp system basically stiffens or softens...

The clamp is oval shaped and the piston has 2 ports so when the clamp is 90 degrees to the ports it has a small clamp/long lever, and then turning the adjuster makes it sit lengthways across the ports to increase the clamp diameter. Clever design, and I prefer it to the fox VVC as it is much less sensitive to tolerance differences and doesn't add any non-standard valves (eg the leaf springs on a VVC damper)

Thanks for sharing. I have been going down the rabbit hole of learning the inner works of Ohlins stuff after recently purchasing an RFX36.