Craigwt

Haven't seen anyone mention this yet: http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Hope-New-Rims-Stems-and-More-Core-Bike-2014.html Most excited about the combo of narrow wide chainring and 42 tooth expansion for a 10 speed cassette... I know these products have been made by other companies before, but I'm hoping (excuse the pun) that they will be easier to get our hands on than the current options, particularly the 42 tooth in the rear.... What do you reckon, going to buy any of it?

I found this to be an important detail, makes a huge difference.

and so.... wheres the dam pic?

Yip, old mounting hardware did the trick. Popped in at stoke to meet the guys and they helped me out by pressing out the unneeded bushes from the new shock. Had a quick test out in the street and all seems good. Can't wait to hit the trails tomorrow!

The new rear shock should be arriving later today, I'll see if I can make a plan when it arrives, but I wouldn't want to head home from work thinking I've got something thats going to work and then it doesn't ... hehe

Thanks for the info, On reading around I did stumble on a thread where they were discussing fox's new mounting hardware, I thought it might be a problem for me changing to RS.... Ah dam, not the news I wanted to hear, but thanks for the heads up. Looks like I will have to take it in somewhere. Wonder where would be the best place? I would love to be able to get it sorted today!

This is what the top of the existing shock looks like: And this is the bottom, no bushing, the bolt that goes through the frame is the same diameter as the eyelet, then there is a spacer on either side.

Wondering if someone here can demystify the whole mounting hardware/bushings thing for me? I'm changing from a 2014 Fox CTD Evolution to a Rockshox Monarch+ and from reading around I'm not so sure its going to be a straight swap. So, will the mounting hardware from my fox shock work with the monarch? Am I right in assuming that If the eyelet diameter and width of the eyelet (from side to side) are the same, then there would be no need for different hardware? or does it not work like that?

http://www.bicycling.co.za/blogs/myles-blog-enduro-thing/ another pic: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/503488433313177826/

Haha, I got a 661 recon as well, very light compared to that!

Got the same one! So what you think?

I think I have the same bike as you (trance 2?). What I've noticed is that the stanchions on my fork are actually 150mm long, but it only gets 140mm travel when deflated. I'm temped to strip it and see if they didn't perhaps just shove some kind of stopper in there to limit it to 140mm. Perhaps they did it cos else there wouldn't be a big enough difference between the regular trance and the sx versions that come with 160mm on the front. Do you stanchions measure the same?

Yeah, conties is insanely fun now!

Cool, I will give them a shout. Thanks. I've researched a fair bit and it seems to be the most popular choice for my bike. Been chatting to a guy in the states that has the same shock on the same bike and he reckons its the way to go as well... very little info available though...

I saw the one he was selling, its in the wrong size unfortunately

Do any shops/suppliers in SA bring these in? I've been on the phone with a couple of local shops and they all get back to me saying that their suppliers don't bring in the monarch plus at all, only the monarch... I know theres a couple guys here on the hub that have bought one, where did you get it from?! Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Hahaha...

Dam dude, five loops is impressive. I got to the top of my third loop once, but I was completely stuffed, couldn't concentrate and fell my ass off. This was even before the new section opened.

I took mine out today, I found the exact same thing...

... One of the owners popped out to the post office today to send your helmet when I was there.

I popped in to rapid sports to check the etto helmets out. What an awesome buy for only R440. I ended up chatting to one of the owners, I asked and he says they're totally willing to ship it via speed services if anyone wants to order. I bought an orange one and got a nice little deal at the counter for paying cash.

He already has... a couple of pages back ... I hear its being collected tonight

No edits on my post. I was pointing out that this statement is incorrect: ...the frames are the same as regular tapered head tube frames. I don't think there is such a thing as an OD2 frame (well at least not in terms of the head tube) from giant. I had a 2013 trance X1 and suffered the same problems with stem choice. In the end I bought a new regular fork and all I had to do was replace the upper part of the headset. This is further proven by deanbean running my OD2 fork on a non giant frame.

I don't think this is 100% accurate. As far as I'm aware all giant frames head tubes are identical to regular tapered head tubes. They simply use a upper headset bearing with a larger inner diameter to accommodate the 1 1/4 inch upper tube of OD2 steerers. OD2 and regular tapered steerers can be interchanged on all tapered headtube frames, as long as you have the correct upper headset bearing and race. i.e. all 2013 trance frames are the same, yet some don't ship with OD2 forks. I've also replaced my OD2 fox fork with a regular RS revelation, and sold my OD2 fork to someone thats using it on a non Giant brand bike.