In my mind, Fox shocks are garbage and no matter what you do, they will still be garbage.
For the OP, the one thing you have to see is if the Rock Shox has been tuned, who has it been tuned for? A 150 lb rider or a 300 pound rider? One that wants XC or DH? Being tuned can be a good thing or a bad thing!
The Mcleod is a good simple shock. It does its job without having to think about it.
Not challenging your conclusion on Fox shocks overall, but how did you come to it? Just from personally riding them? For technical reasons in their design?
I am coming from a place of ignorance on bicycle shocks. I raced superbikes for 6 years, with various Ohlins and Penske forks/shocks, and many valve stack changes; and am a mechanical engineer by profession. So, the technical details are very interesting to me.
It's hard for me to put much faith in an individual person's "feeling" of a suspension component, unless I know for a fact their pace. The race track was full of people throwing 20 times the money at their bikes than I could, and struggling with feel, while I was crushing their lap times on a budget.
I can see a handful of very positive reviews of the McLeod on mtbr, and others that suggest they have some minor QC issues, but haven't found much else in searching the web.
The stock 210x50 shock on my '18 Rift Zone has 15mm ID eyelets, that are 12.6mm wide (bare metal, no bushings). Is this relatively standard at this point? Obviously, if the metal eyelet matches, I can use the OEM bushing/spacer stack. But if need be, I can make custom spacers, source bushings, etc.
The used RS is claimed to be tuned for 160 -180 lb rider. I would be on the lighter side of that. Roughly 155 lb of flesh and bone.
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