Mountain bikers incessantly have to choose. Do you need the suppleness of a coil surprise? Or the progressiveness and adjustability of an air surprise?
Now you’ve gotten another choice with the brand new Tigon surprise from Cane Creek. It nonetheless provides the sensitivity of a coil surprise, however provides a secondary air spring to track the surprise’s development. That adjustability comes from what Cane Creek calls their RAMP Tube Generation. This patent-pending design ends up in a coil surprise this is extra immune to side-loading and buckling forces which might be generally unfavorable to coil shocks. Importantly, that makes the Tigon a more sensible choice for clevis and trunnion-mount frames.
The RAMP Tube additionally permits the rider to track the surprise development by way of as much as 35% with a easy surprise pump (30 psi max). The charts above display the surprise’s development with 10, 20, or 30 psi (gray, blue, and crimson respectively) added to the RAMP Tube. Riders will nonetheless set the sag according to the coil spring by myself, the usage of Cane Creek’s VALT springs which can be bought one by one.
A part of the higher resilience of the surprise is the damping tube that’s been relocated to the center of the surprise with the next quantity of damper oil. Right here you’ll nonetheless in finding their DB Dual Tube era for independently managed top and low-speed compression and low-speed rebound adjustment.
Pricing for the surprise by myself is $899.99 and it’s to be had in same old and trunnion sizes.