More updates....Broken parts addition.
I did mention in my Mooch recap how my Lefty wasnt not working correctly and I have been having all of these issues with it losing travel since last year. Well it went back to c'dale a couple of times, they fixed it free of charge and sent it back. Before the mooch race i was again down to 2in of travel. I know the reset process on the new leftys, its less work...No tools, just take the air out of it...move it up and down, re-air, done. Takes like 60 seconds. Or so I thought. One of the nice perks about buying bike from
@jdog is that he never leaves me hanging with a problem and everything always gets worked out. And quite frankly, my leftys have been some of the most reliable pieces of bike equipment I own...My 2012 carbon lefty now has 13,000 miles on it...13,000! And thats with 180lb me riding it thru north jersey for 6 years. My 2012 supermax has over 7000mi now. In this case, after a couple of previous issues, Jay got me in touch with one of the C'dale techs. We spoke on the phone and he asked me how I was resetting the fork...I mean I have been resetting leftys for eions now, I figure I have it down. Well, turns out, with the newer leftys, you have to really bottom them out hard to properly reset them. Like way harder than I had thought. I run thru this process on the phone with him and bingo, fork is fixed in 1 min. At iron furnace, worked like a charm. So turns out I just cant hit things hard enough.
Also broken, my 3 month old KS lev dropper...went online, filled out form, mailed it to them....it came back rebuilt a week later, no charge...sweet, thanks!
I bought a fox shock to replace the monarch on my scalpel. This was an experiment. When I bought the scalpel, fox didnt make a metric shock so I bought a new/take off 7.5x2.0 float off ebay to try out. I actually called fox first and tried buying the correct shock, but they told me they didnt make it, sorry. So I picked this one up for pretty cheap...This thing....right out of the box...The 3 position lever doesn't work...set it to the middle, it hits a bump and automatically switches to lock position. So I sent to back to fox last week...Of course I know there will be no warranty for this even tho its basically new. Turns out for what its going to cost to fix it, more cost effective to buy a new shock...They gave me what i paid for the shock as a trade in....and now they do make the proper metric shock for this bike...hooray! So in the end, good resolution.
My point in making this post (and im only making it bc I opened the can of worms already when i mentioned my lefty was having issues) is that yes we all get fucking pissed when our shit breaks and I see some people RUN to the internet and start venting and bashing. In my experience, really isnt the way to get things resolved. Hold off, contact someone, tell them your issue...You might be pleasantly surprised.
