Interesting question and I pondered the same thing. My new Specialized Status frame comes with the Float X and I plan to tinker with it. It doesn't say in the manual that you must have x minimum amount of spacers installed. Might be best to ask Fox that question and see what they say.

I'm probably going to remove my shock and let my local suspension shop set it up for my weight.

 

^ I know there’s a lot of people here that will know the correct answer. I know on the fork the volume spacers can be taken out.

 

Yes, it's fine. That's why they make it easy to remove them 😄

 

Which bike? depends on the leverage curve and also in the stroke is shortened - so you maybe measuring wrong. I'm running the Float X 230x60 on Orbea Rallon and am running 0.3 volume spacers with about 29% sag. The shaft is actually 65mm - so if I remove the travel spacer, I can long stroke my bike. So make sure you measure sag correctly.

 

When I was running one on my STEVO I took them out as I was struggling to use full travel.

 

Sure you can take out the volume spacers if you dont use the all travel, but before you taking them out, change your sag to 30%, this will help with the small bump sensitivity and probably you’ll use more travel as well.

 

I tried that already. In the track app, I lowered my weight from 175 pounds to 160 pounds and I used those recommended settings. I’m not sure if it dropped the sag to 30%. But it didn’t make that much of a difference with small and medium hits.