Watch: will it be bested by the Ohlins STX22?ĭetails Weight: grams including hardware. Product Overview Overall rating: Score 8. Cane Creek has a potentially class-leading product in the DBinline. The Cane Creek DBinline would be looking at a perfect score here but there are some quirks and reliability issues. Support, right throughout the stroke, can be perfectly tailored to how supple or poppy you want the bike to feel - assuming of course you have a good idea what the dials do. Grip levels, off-the-top, are superb, as is the ability to track the ground and handle high-speed compressions when riding over repeated roots or rock gardens. The upshot of all this technology is reduced stiction, and having tested it on several bikes, over as many months, my conclusion is this is the best performing trail bike shock available. It also features a new flexible rubber membrane that separates the damper oil from the nitrogen-charged chamber that cleverly surrounds the shock eyelet area and compensates for oil displacement when the shock is compressed. On top of four independent damping adjustments, the air spring can easily be tuned by adding volume spacers to increase bottom-out resistance and progressivity. I say go with new hardware versus trying to make do with what you already have: you will get longer life out of the deal.A wonderfully performing shock let down by reliability. Installation of the hardware takes just a few minutes, and it can be pressed in by hand. Depending on what bike you ride, you will need to order a few new kits. Nas discography tpbįor more information on the Climb Switch be sure to check out this previous article. For the shorter-travel bikes that do spend considerable time going both up and down, an easy-to-use climb switch that sits around the LSC dial makes changing rates easy. No matter which way you look at it, you still get the same four-way independent adjustments. You still get the Twin-Tube design that the DB series shocks are famous for. In both cases the membrane takes up any surge of fluid, preventing cavitation. In rebound, fluid flows from the back side of the piston, to the outside tube, then through the dampening circuits, and back to the top side of the piston. In all cases, you can see the suspension fluid flowing fully from the inside tube through the dampening circuits, then back out to the outside tube. Below is a graphic representation of how the rebound and compression circuits work with and without the climb switch. Unlike previous versions of the DB shocks, the DBInline has been cut down in size to save on weight and packaging.Ĭane Creek discovered that the membrane was all that was needed for shorter-travel rear shocks. I was all over the DBInline after it was introduced, with high expectations.

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