{"id":8316,"date":"2016-10-29T09:01:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T09:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zo-zo.com\/?p=8316"},"modified":"2016-10-30T08:34:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T08:34:04","slug":"not-vivid-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/?p=8316","title":{"rendered":"not vivid enough."},"content":{"rendered":"

as i was saying<\/a>, i was looking for a bit more comfort and speed on the downhill parts of our rides and decided to replace the stock monarch that came on the bike with a rock shox vivid air.<\/p>\n

\"vivid_2_0\"<\/p>\n

swapping the shocks was a pretty simple affair; the vivid is a straight drop in. as you can see the vivid (top) is a significantly more substantial part. not so much in terms of weight but definitely when it comes to air volume.<\/p>\n

when i rode it on wednesday night i was a bit disappointed: the shock felt harsh and the bike felt like it was stuttering through the rougher sections. not a big deal: with a shock as configurable as this one it’s normal to get it wrong first.<\/p>\n

\"vivid_2_1\"<\/p>\n

i also wanted to replace the shock bushings and when i checked bushings in the vivid i immediately found another reason to switch them out: the bushings were way too tight and did not rotate properly.<\/p>\n

good thing i had just ordered a bushing service tool. not so good that it only worked with standard bushings, not the needle bearings i was planning to swap over from the monarch.<\/p>\n

\"vivid_2_2\"<\/p>\n

the first part was simple: pressing\u00a0the standard bushing out of the vivid. i had to get a bit creative with the needle rollers: i turned the blue driver (slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the eye) around and used the inner part of the needle bearing as a guide to line up the outer. i also needed a longer threaded rod but that was a case of $2 at the local hardware store.<\/p>\n

\"vivid_2_3\"<\/p>\n

so now i got needle rollers in the vivid, i turned the rebound damping down a few notches and finally upped the air pressure in the spring to run the recommended 30% sag. let’s see how we go on the next test ride.<\/p>\n

update 30 Oct<\/strong>: yep, much better. the shock is not harsh at all, in fact it appears to be showing up the forks now and i had to speed up rebound to match. very very good performance indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

as i was saying, i was looking for a bit more comfort and speed on the downhill parts of our rides and decided to replace the stock monarch that came on the bike with a rock shox vivid air. swapping the shocks was a pretty simple affair; the vivid is a straight drop in. as… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bikes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/vivid_2_0.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MvER-2a8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8323,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316\/revisions\/8323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}