Fox Shox DHX Air 5.0 Rear Shock
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DESCRIPTION
Anyone worldwide may purchaseThis Fox Racing Shox product, however,the delivery address must be insideThe United States.The best-of-the-bestTechnology available! Buttery-smooth Genuine Kashima Coat, Boost Valve, High & Low speed compression, bottom out progressiveness and force adjust. Great forTrail, all-mountain or free riding. Kashima Coat - Buttery-smooth, Genuine Kashima Coat is available only from FOX Racing Shox. Its distinctive gold color is backed by its high performance at
USER REVIEWS
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This is one of the best upgrades i have ever made.It made my bike feel so much different then with the stock rp2.The pro pedal acts like the low speed compression dampening on fox forks. Works great it totally woke my bike up. Plush travel great small bump compliance. I love this shock i will never ride any other.
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GREAT PRODUCT. Its cheaper to buy a new shock then a new bike. WAS NOT AS HARD TO SET UP AS I THOUGHT.
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Great compression, weight, adjustability, durability, and overall performance
Turning on an off propedal is a hassle
Great shock. Amazing adjustability at a good weight. Bottom out feels endless. Great from small bumps to big drops. My only complaint is that it takes a while to twist the propedal knob 15 times. I have ridden the vivid air, DHX coil, and RP23. The DHX air stands out. If you don't have a full on downhill bike I suggest this shock.
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Fox RP23, Vivid Air
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Weight
adaptability to terrain.
durability
small bump compliance.
capacity for larger riders
A durable, adjustable, and light shock for free riders and downhillers with non-linear suspension designs. Air shocks are inherently linear through their travel. (they don't ramp up well) the boost chamber does a reasonable job but for a single pivot bike like mine requires too much main chamber pressure combined with max boost pressure to have soft and supple small bump compliance and be able to hit a drop, lip, or berm. A poor choice for a single pivot design.
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Vanilla RC coil
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I have always been a coil shock guy. as a bigger guy my options are limited. I was hesitant to go air, but now that I have, WOW. the dhx air is awesome. This is also a 2008 shock, with max/min propedal. pretty easy to setup, and for a trail/am rig, i dont think any coil could match its performance. I had a brand new vivid 5.1coil tuned perfect and this shock with just a few tweaks already performs better. I really wanted a vivid air, but at $600 i was being cheap. I dont think if i had the cash i would spend it on the vivid now, the dhx air rocks!
none that i've found yet. the bottom out knob is wicked hard to turn, but thats really minor.
The 2008 and newer dhx's rock. I've heard some issues with the 06-07 ones, but it seems they've sorted it out for the 2008 and ups. I actually love the propedal, and to be quite honest I would leave it on all the time, but i wouldnt want to damage the shock dropping something. I'm a believer, and at 1 lb, its about 2.5 lbs lighter than a vivid with a steel coil. Spend some time setting it up and it will surprise you. this is the first fox product that I have really liked. and It may be serviceable by the end user, looks pretty simple to me.
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vivid 5.1 coil, older RS rear shocks
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very adjustable. very light. GREAT SHOCK.
hard to tune if you are an ignorant person.
I was hesitant to stick with this shock as I had/have a RS vivd 5.1 with the right spring rate ready to go. The previous owner of the bike all but made me swear on the life of my unborn children that I would give the DHX 5 air a fair trial.
This air spring/damping unit is truly among the best I have ever used. I suspect the vivid and rc4 may edge it out for DH use, but on a freeride/all-mountain bike this thing is well and truly the bomb!
It is not the easiest to tune, nor is it the hardest - please take the time to investigate not just the manual from fox website, but also explanations of how each setting works (also on the website). from there you can tune it yourself relatively easily. be very wary of letting "forum tweakers" such as 12 year olds with laptops tell you how to tune your suspension. some people truly spend too much time playing with settings while NOT riding trails.
Unless you are a pro at this stuff: *you need to ride the same trails and only change one thing at a time to truly appreciate and understand the impact of your meddling!*
brilliant shock. im dishing out 5/5.
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vanilla RC, Marzocchi Roco R piggyback, RS vivid 5.1, dhx rc4, rp23...
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Fantastic shock, lightweight
Not as plush as coil shock
This shoxk is great, i run 290 psi for my 100 kg riding weight and have had zero problems in 3 years. I have to pump the shock up every 3 or 4 weeks as it drops down to 250 or 260 psi but that is a small price to pay for a great performing, lightweight shock.
Anyone who says it is hard to tune or doesnt perform well is a chump, this a great shock, get your local bike shop to set it up for you, once you have the main can PSI, propedal PSI and blowoff tuning set it is basically set and forget and is a fantastic shock. I have run a DHX coil and this shock dominates all over the coil. Lighter, easier to tune, less bottom out. Why bother with coil for anything other than DH or FR? for General trail riding and Free ride this shock is king. You chumps need to stop whinging, this is an awesome shock.
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Light, Feels almost as buttery as a coil shock, amazingly tuneable, totally reliable for an air shock.
Can be difficult to tune the compression damping/boost chamber. Needed tweaking to gain the right "charastics" that I wanted.
OK. Ive had enough of people slating this shock. It's a brilliant bit of kit, but......... but....... you have to set it up properly. First off, this shock has two air sleeves. one main chamber as per RP23 and a secondary that is supposed to make the shock "high volume". The second chamber sits over the main and is fed via a small 2mm hole drilled 2/3 of the way into the pistons travel. sounds complicated, it isnt. If it wallows or bottoms out too easily, simply unscrew the sleeve from the body, remove the snap ring, and fill the secondary sleeve with a suitable packing material to flatten the spring curve out a bit. Im 12.5 stone and running 260 main, 170 boost, one line showing. Works awsome, dosnt flap, dosnt bottom. Propedal is directly related to boost pressure, more boost pressure, more propedal effect, simple. Best air shock going!
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DHX 5 coil. Vanilla RC. Rocco TST-r and a hoard of different frames.
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Easy to stifffen. Good high low speed compression. Easy to tune and adjust to personal preferences. Strong and very adjustible
Very adjustible
If you ride any tipe of just and are looking for fine line between stiff and soft this is the shock for you. So far Ive road everything from dj,s shore and slopestyle and it has held up to my expectations. I do not understand why anyone would complain that this doesnt stand up on downhill when its not a meant for that type of riding.
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soaks up everything but provides a decent pedaling platform
The propedal lever is too small on the '08.
I've had no problems whatsoever with this shock. I weigh about 200lbs with pack. I pump the main chamber to 210psi and the boost valve to 150. The bottom out is only a few clicks from all the way out. I have the rebound wound in a good bit. I get almost full travel on 7+ foot drops without getting kicked off. It seems to do exactly what it's supposed to do. I don't know what everybody is talking about concerning the shock wallowing in the mid-travel. My shock does everything I expect it to do and then some. I'm very impressed with its performance. I would have a difficult time purchasing another FS bike that didn't have this shock installed. I'm quite sold on this product.
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RP23, Vanilla Float, Float R, Float RL, Rockshox paperweight
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Hasn't failed to date. Lots of adjustability. Lighter than a coil shock.
Low speed damping almost nonexistent. Adjustments interact, and there's no good info on how to set up this shock. Even PUSH won't touch it.
I'm a big guy (220 lbs) with a fairly smooth pedal stroke, and this shock doesn't provide enough low speed damping for me. I suspect the legendary "mid stroke wallow" is really a total absence of low speed compression damping. ProPedal knob only makes small impacts harsher without reducing bob. I have to turn up the rebound pretty high to avoid getting bucked over water bars. The boost pressure interacts with the main air chamber pressure in ways that I can't begin to fathom, and Fox doesn't document.
On the plus side: All I do to maintain it is keep the air pressures up and wipe dust off the shaft from time to time. In two years of riding it has never failed. It wallows through the mid stroke but I have never once bottomed it out, even with the bottom-out knob all the way out and relatively low pressure in the boost chamber.
This shock might work decently for a little guy (or gal) who has the patience to figure out the boost chamber and bottom-out settings, but Clydes and Athenas should look elsewhere. Next stop for me is a Cane Creek Double Barrel.
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