- #Iron horse bike race details manual
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I would love to see them come out with an X.0 front derailleur which would complete the X.0 grouppo. The only thing I would like to see SRAM improve upon is their front derailleur. At fist I was worried about damaging the carbon in the event of a crash – but after a few good diggers they still look like new! The Carbon lever has this distinct feel to them, and they get right along with my index fingers. Installation was a piece of cake –bolt on, align the calipers, adjust the reach of the levers and off you go! Didn’t even need to bleed them - they worked great right out of the box and have been stopping me on a dime since. But looks isn’t the only thing going for these brakes! Their performance is on par with the Juicy 7’s but with the addition of Ti hardware, nice aluminum pad contact adjuster knobs and carbon lever blades. Last but not least – when you have a bike that goes lightning fast, you need some good reliable brakes to slow you down! No better stoppers than Juicy Seven Carbon’s and as an extra bonus they go hand in hand with the new SRAM Carbon X.0 Triggers and rear derailleur. It’s not stiff to the point that it deflects off obstacles, but just has enough give to give you predictable steering feedback. With the help of the 20mm Maxle, the Pike is a stiff fork which offers precise steering. At times you almost feel like you have more than 140mm of travel. It’s adjustable and the damping is really constant.
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I’ve been running Dual Air Pikes for the past two years now and it’s been a solid, problem free and low maintenance fork. Also remember to always start off by setting the Positive air chamber first, then the Negative. Running less Negative air pressure will give you a firmer ride and will loose some small bump sensitivity.
I generally like to run the same amount of air in both the positive and negative chambers – that gives me a real plush and active ride. Using independently adjustable positive (top) and negative (bottom) air chambers you can really dial-in the Dual Air Pike to your riding preference. Run a little Floodgate means it will only take small forces to make the fork active - Run a lot of Floodgate and greater forces will be required.
Just like the Pearl rear shock, you can fine tune where you want the “Lock” blow-off threshold to be. rotation of the gold ‘gate’ knob) are only noticed when in the “Lock” setting. At first I thought I had too much oil, but it appears I had a defective MC damper since RockShox replaced it and the new one has been problem free. I did however have some problems with my MC damper – after a few weeks of riding it started leaking at the Floodgate knob. Last year the Pike made my “top ten products of 2005” list, and will most likely make it to my 2006 list. But it doesn’t affect the performance of the shock in any way. I run quite a few clicks of rebound and I can feel it catch – but using the softer negative spring I can feel and hear a distinct knock when the suspension tops out. Once you reach the top of your climb you can simply open it up for the fun flowy descent coming up! When in the fully locked out setting you tend to loose traction over things like water bars and/or square edged rocks, but by using the middle Floodgate setting, you get the best of both worlds. I only use the Floodgate mode when doing long sustained climbs to resist bobbing, but still have the suspension move on those bigger bumps and rocks, which help maintain traction.
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I like to run my shock (and fork) fairly soft and rarely use the full lock-out mode.
I had to replace the stock one with the soft version. The other cool thing about the Pearl is that RockShox makes 3 different negative springs to help accommodate various rider preferences, bike designs and rider weights. Low pressure has the advantage of less friction, and is typically less prone to leaking.
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That’s a lot less than the manual suggested, but it’s nothing to worry about since the Pearl was designed around a low pressure system. I was surprised that I had to run such low pressure in order to get proper sag and full travel. For my buck fiddy I had to use super lower pressure – about 30lbs to be exact. The Floodgate on my Pearl has 22 clicks of adjustment and the rebound has like 55+ clicks and that’s not a typo. That feature alone is head and shoulders above other dampers I’ve used in the past. You also have the option of adjusting the floodgate while in platform mode to basically dial in how much you want the rear suspension to move. With the Motion Control you can go from a rock hard lock-out to Floodgate (platform) mode to full open just by flipping the blue lever. The Pearl 3.3 shock features RockShox Motion Control damping. The Dual Air Pike 454 fork and Pearl 3.3 rear damper handled bump absorption duties.
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