![]() ![]() Up front a 30T is spec’d to motor you up the big climbs on long days, and an MRP chainguide protects your investment. SRAM’s reknowned X01 Eagle 12 speed group is standard fare, albeit now with an expanded range due to a bump from 50T to 52T in the largest gear. This adjuster controls the extent to which a shim blocks an orifice that manages low speed compression on both the compression and the rebound side, and thus helps mitigate pedal bob cause by both compression and extension. It’s not really an open / trail / lock style setup, but rather three broad settings of low speed compression. In lieu of Re:Aktiv, is a standard shimmed damper (Hallelujah!) which now has a simple 3-position adjuster to help tune out pedal input. This means that the shock’s reservoir and thus its internal floating piston are now mainly concerned with temperature management as opposed to also dealing with shaft displacement. Okay, so – Thru-Shaft offsets shaft displacement by having the shock’s shaft literally exit through the bottom of the shock as it cycles through its travel. ![]() Thru-Shaft still remains, and this new version of the shock is based around a RockShox Super Deluxe Ultimate. Gone is Re:Aktiv, a technology co-developed with Penske to improve pedaling performance. We could dedicate an entire story to the new rear shock but we’ll try to keep it brief. An all new industrial design, the option of an integrated fender and a bottom out indicator are a couple of other new features. Like most RockShox offerings, it has externally adjustable high and low speed compression with a single rebound adjuster via its Charger 2.1 cartridge. With burly 38mm stanchions, the fork feels nearly as stiff as a BoXXer double crown fork. Starting with suspension, up front we see the all new RockShox Zeb with 170mm travel and a 44mm offset crown.
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