All sorts of things are tricky in the time of COVID-19. Like shipping. UPS had a package from RockShox for us for a week, but it got stuck near Vancouver Airport. Eventually I got somebody on the phone and redirected it to a local UPS location and it arrived three days later, just in time for the place to close for the weekend. By the time we had access to a couple of forks to try, it seemed unlikely we’d be able to break them in adequately before the embargo lift. Luckily there was a work around.
This air spring upgrade is backward compatible with a bunch of Lyrik, Pike, Yari and Revelation models, and you can buy the parts in two formats; either the two new bits( for 2020 forks only), or the entire air spring assembly. As luck would have it, Rockshox sent one of each kit, so we decided to retrofit a couple of already-broken-in forks we had on test bikes for a direct comparison. We went out for a socially distanced ride, and then dropped the lowers on a couple of a different Lyrik Ultimates, (a 150mm and a 160mm) and then saddled up again for the identical ride the next day.
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