Cannondaleriders

At the Glamis ride, someone was telling someone that he didn't like SSD setups and that anything other than the stock shock would make the rearend hit the pipe.

I like the Elka Elite rear shock and would like to have a zero preload, dual or triple rate setup. But would anything hit the pipe like whoever it was said.......Or did I hear wrong.

Just curious:)

You heard right. I'm pretty sure that they were telling me something like this. I am not sure about it though. I think it might have been ****** telling me that. Even if it did hit...a small dent in the can is a small price to pay for a nice plush ride.

Small dent? Man you guys must be easy on your machines. Mine has a nice sonic bend to it right now. Now for the other part. I have checked on acouple things Elka's are super soft so they allow for alot of down travel making it easier to ding your exhaust.

When I spoke to the Lenig Brothers about their machines they explained that a properly revalved Ohlins minus the SSD was the best set-up for them. Dirt has even commented that the rear shock he had a chance to ride on was much better. I will be looking into doing that to a rear Ohlins soon so I can chime in on this better.

I currently run an Elka rear and I love the ride, but I am curious to try the Ohlins.

I run a stock ohlins with TCS conversion, and I love that setup. I also have a Elka elite on my woods bike, and I can honestly say there is not a hill of beans difference. As for the dented cans, my bikes do not have dented cans (maybe I don't jump enough). I am also trying to figure out now how to speed up my preload/rebound without losing the low ride height. After coming off of my dirtbike, I don't feel I get enough "lift" out of the suspension, so I will be playing with that as soon as the weather breaks.

I have an dual rate elka elite and it hits the can more than I'd like. I have a FMF Ti that now has major dents in it but I think its a small price to pay for that setup, I love it. Only concern is that the dents might hinder performance.

Or you just aren't fat enough like myself!

I'm not sure you can get away from denting the can at all. I had ripped my toaster from the bracket when I flatlanded a huge double on my mx debut. It wasn't pretty. I was running the crappy fox rear but I had the preload cranked down b/c I was bottoming out on smaller jumps before that race.

All I can say about my Quadshop Elka rebuild ohlins is that it works great. I have a TC pipe on it now and it has never hit. I weigh 200 pounds and the shock was set up for a 145 pound rider and the settings are set dead in the middle with NO bottom out what so ever. The only reason I would EVER sell my ohlins conversion would be to buy a elka remote rezzie for a Walsh 250r kit. IMO, I think thay for the price of the ohlins rebuild, and a new elka shock, I would stick with the ohlins because of its great performance. BTW, a few weeks ago I hit a 90ft tabletop with no bottoming out.........

If you're hitting the axle with your can, you have big problems anyway. I can understand hitting the brake caliper.

..My Wilco pipe hit,so i came up with this spacer set up..havent used it yet,but i will soon...
....I dont have must time on my TCS SS rear,but i like it for the soal reason that it should save the chain slide?