Romic: Seems to bob about same as Fox air?

With the romic u diall in the compression damping adjustment untill it no longer bobs. This only
adjust the compresion damping on the slow speed circuit and therefore eliminates rider input. The
high speed compresion damping is auto adjusted by the reactor valve inside the shock. THen adjust
the rebound damping to suit. The compresion adjuster is the one at the bottom of the shock.

That should sort it out.

AL "(Pete Cresswell)" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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Am I missing something?

Just replaced the Fox air shock on my Ellsworth Isis with a new Romic.

Haven't really *ridden* it yet - but just noodling up and down the street,

it

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looks to me like the bob is the same or maybe even a bit more than with

the Fox

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air.

I thought this thing was supposed to somehow filter out the bob...

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With the romic u diall in the compression damping adjustment untill it no longer bobs. This only
adjust the compresion damping on the slow speed circuit and therefore eliminates rider input. The
high speed compresion damping is auto adjusted by the reactor valve inside the shock. THen adjust
the rebound damping to suit. The compresion adjuster is the one at the bottom of the shock.

That should sort it out.

"Bottom" = Blue, rite? Romic's leaflet doesn't make the distinction based on color - but doping it
out from the pic, I'm guessing that I had to install it backwards on my Isis - the "bottom" end
wouldn't fit in the rear bracket. That leaflet is kind of pitiful considering the cost of the
product....

I got to do a few hours on it yesterday afternoon.

My impression is that it will never completely filter out my very uneven "spin", but does really
well with long, slow, out-of-the saddle strokes - in fact, it's like riding a hardtail when I take a
'butt break' out of the saddle on one big hill I ride to get home from my main riding spot.

OTOH, it seems to be getting at least *some* of the spin-related bob because I can feel the
biopacing sensation that I get when riding my hardtail. This is probably an added feature for me
because it will nudge me towards cleaning up my so-called spin (which, at this point, is more like
high-RPM stomping...)

Also, it's clearly a preferable ride overall - although I can't put my finger on exactly why I think
that - I'm guessing that at least some of it is what some people say about coilover being a better
ride than air.
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With the romic u diall in the compression damping adjustment untill it no longer bobs. This only
adjust the compresion damping on the slow speed circuit and therefore eliminates rider input. The
high speed compresion damping is auto adjusted by the reactor valve inside the shock. THen

adjust

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the rebound damping to suit. The compresion adjuster is the one at the bottom of the shock.

That should sort it out.

"Bottom" = Blue, rite? Romic's leaflet doesn't make the distinction

based on

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color - but doping it out from the pic, I'm guessing that I had to install

it

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backwards on my Isis - the "bottom" end wouldn't fit in the rear bracket.

That

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leaflet is kind of pitiful considering the cost of the product....

Bottom is the end of the shock that has the main part of the shock body (the direction in which the
piston is driven when under load)

Al