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OK, it's been a week now that I've had my 66sl.
If want my conclusion first here it is- "Awesome!" (whiny cartman voice)
Here's the specs:
Around 550-555mm AtoC at 170mm
5.6 lbs with 2 inches cut off steerer and axle bolted in
adjustable travel from <100-170mm (could possibly go lower for all I know!)
low speed compression adjust
4 air springs
and an all around top quality feel to the whole thing, knobs and all.
How does it feel compared to a coil Zoke?
Just as good as any coil Zoke with one week of hard break-in riding. Will get better with time as bushings get set.
OMG is it really that light? You bet! Lightest 170mm fork you can buy!
Here's the cooledt part of this fork, you can adjust the travel by a huge margin! Zokes says it is 150-170mm, but that's no true at all. It can easily go down to 100 or less. I'm running mine at 120mm right now for the heck of it. All it takes is adding air to the negative chamber which takes no more than 2 minutes. Something that can be easily done before a huge climb up a mountain.
I can imagine this is going to be the next hot fork to have for dirt jumpers. Seeing as how it can go down to 120mm or less it's an ideal DJ fork. Add the fact that it's only 5.6 lbs and it's a good choice. By far stiffer than any 32mm stanchion fork and most likely stronger.
All that and it still can go back up to 170mm for a huck session or a day at whistler.
Man, I thought the Pike was a versatile fork... 66sl is mega tunable.
You have the positive air spring, negative air spring, right leg spring, and the bottom out air spring chamber PAR which controls progression.
The lowest pressure for the negative spring is higher than the top pressure for the positive spring. This will make sure that your fork will never get stuck down if the air spring fails, it will go up in the travel.
The 66sl is easily the most over looked fork of the 2006 release. I couldn't be any more happy!
btw, I have a slightly used 2006 66sl for sale if anyone is interested!
JK
If want my conclusion first here it is- "Awesome!" (whiny cartman voice)
Here's the specs:
Around 550-555mm AtoC at 170mm
5.6 lbs with 2 inches cut off steerer and axle bolted in
adjustable travel from <100-170mm (could possibly go lower for all I know!)
low speed compression adjust
4 air springs
and an all around top quality feel to the whole thing, knobs and all.
How does it feel compared to a coil Zoke?
Just as good as any coil Zoke with one week of hard break-in riding. Will get better with time as bushings get set.
OMG is it really that light? You bet! Lightest 170mm fork you can buy!
Here's the cooledt part of this fork, you can adjust the travel by a huge margin! Zokes says it is 150-170mm, but that's no true at all. It can easily go down to 100 or less. I'm running mine at 120mm right now for the heck of it. All it takes is adding air to the negative chamber which takes no more than 2 minutes. Something that can be easily done before a huge climb up a mountain.
I can imagine this is going to be the next hot fork to have for dirt jumpers. Seeing as how it can go down to 120mm or less it's an ideal DJ fork. Add the fact that it's only 5.6 lbs and it's a good choice. By far stiffer than any 32mm stanchion fork and most likely stronger.
All that and it still can go back up to 170mm for a huck session or a day at whistler.
Man, I thought the Pike was a versatile fork... 66sl is mega tunable.
You have the positive air spring, negative air spring, right leg spring, and the bottom out air spring chamber PAR which controls progression.
The lowest pressure for the negative spring is higher than the top pressure for the positive spring. This will make sure that your fork will never get stuck down if the air spring fails, it will go up in the travel.
The 66sl is easily the most over looked fork of the 2006 release. I couldn't be any more happy!
btw, I have a slightly used 2006 66sl for sale if anyone is interested!