What are all you running for a shock and how are you finding it? I'm on the Storia, and its never felt quite right, for a few reasons.. probably my main complaint with it and the whole bike is it feels high/on top of the bike, like a high BB, which its not a a high bb, actually more on the low side for its travel.. but i get on friends bikes, even ones with similar or higher BB heights and they feel so much more planted, like you can drive the bike through the pedals and rear end and have confidence in it. this has a kind of pogo stick feeling, like the BB is kind of bouncing and never "takes a set".
Part of it too is that i went with a 460 reach frame for my 5'11 height and long armspan, i should probably go to the 480, thats probably only making the on the bike feeling worse. and the overall wheelbase is actually pretty damn short for a 160 bike.
my initial thought was to go to a softer spring, get me more in the sag. But i was having issues bottoming early on unless i was running almost fully open rebound. broke a few rims. and it also felt harsh on super square edge hits, like it was very resistant to moving. I had EXT service it and go for a step lighter tune, which helped with a lot of the harshness, rebounds still set fast and i dont have hard rim breaking bottom outs at least. but then on a lot the bigger,basketball sized, square edge style hits at higher speeds, it feels like its bottoming, (understandably) but then kicks back hard. feels like im gonna go OTB if i hit those sections faster. and ive ridden those sections at the same speed on a 130 bike and had a more composed feeling rear end.
Its a pretty progressive bike, but maybe i should be running an air shock? a progressive coil? or the ohlins coil with that big bump rubber that starts activating super early sounds intriguing.
Its enough of an issue that if i cant fix it with a shock id get another bike.
