Muddy Bike Reviews

Technologies:
• Air Guides: With our easy-to-understand guides for tuning air spring suspension printed right on the fork, setting up suspension to match a rider and enhance his or her riding style takes a matter of seconds.
• Dual Air: With independently adjustable positive and negative air spring chambers, Dual Air is race or trail ready, highly tunable, and one of the lightest air spring systems on the market.
• Dual Flow: Suspension shouldn’t pack up in rock gardens or buck after big drops. That’s why Dual Flow incorporates independent damping circuits, allowing separate rebound speeds for big hits and small ones. A user-adjustable knob controls the beginning-stroke (small-hit) rebound, and a factory-set ending-stroke (big-hit) rebound creates the perfect suspension for whatever the trail (or park) throws your way. Now tuning your suspension for your unique needs is as easy as a clockwise or counterclockwise turn. In the RockShox world this is clicking toward the turtle or the “jackalope.” Featured in: Totem, Lyrik, SID, Reba, Revelation, Monarch.
• Long Travel Dual Air: Employs our patented floating negative chamber to optimize the spring curve for long travel forks, providing a consistent feel throughout the travel.
• Motion Control™ With Motion Control, forks chew up climbs with incredible efficiency while the patented lockout blowoff valve and threshold control immediately absorb any bumps along the way. An elegant design in a simple and lightweight package.
• Power Bulge: Material reinforcement in the lower leg at the bushing increases stiffness and bushing durability.

Specifications:
• Travel: 150mm Dual Air
• Weight: 1620g (3.57 lbs) Dual Air
• Damping: Motion Control
• Available Springs: Dual Air
• Adjustments: External Beginning Stroke Rebound /Low Speed Compression / External Floodgate and Lockout / Spring via Air Pressure,
• Steerer: Aluminium, 1 1/8″
• Crown: Forged, Hollow 6061 T-6 Aluminium
• Upper: Tubes 32mm, 7000 Series Straight Wall Aluminium, Low Friction Anodized
• Lowers: Magnesium, Post Disc Mount, Optional 9mm QR
• Recommended Rear Shock: Monarch and Ario
• Maximum Rotor Size: 210mm
• Other: *Weight based on 265mm 1 1/8″, 9mm axle.

Updates for Model Year 2011:
• Updated detented compression adjustment for RLT model.
• RLT models upgraded to Dual Flow rebound.

Elixir 5 offers the same ride quality as higher-end Elixirs, in a simpler package. With features like our modulation-enhancing TaperBore Technology, powerful two-piece caliper design and easy access tooled reach adjust, this brake offers the best power and control in its class. When what’s around the bend remains to be seen, the Elixir 5 is like having a handlebar-mounted Miss Cleo.

Technologies:
• Deep Stroke Modulation™: There’s a fine line between braking hard and braking so hard that you lose traction. Deep Stroke Modulation allows riders to perfectly navigate that line and control even the most powerful brakes with finesse.
• DOT 5.1: Heat is an enemy of any brake system, so advancements in heat management, mean advancements in your ride. You see, we found that in our systems DOT 5.1 takes almost 3 times longer to boil than DOT 4, thus allowing flawless fade-free performance in even more extreme conditions.
• Intergrated Reservoir: With TaperBore Technology™ we’ve integrated the reservoir and master cylinder on our hydraulic disc-brake levers to create a super-sleek (and even lighter) lever design.
• MatchMaker Compatible: Save weight and clutter on the bar with MatchMaker. This system holds AVID® levers, a number of SRAM triggers and the RockShox PushLoc control—all with one tidy, light clamp.
• Read More Power Reserve Geometry: At the end of the day, a brake lever simply multiples the force your hand generates (just like the nut cracker). Avid’s Power Reserve Geometry™represents a way of thinking about the physics of leverage and your hand’s comfort. This philosophy is fundamentally different than others in the business of brakes. Due to pivot placement, physics dictates that with other brake levers your fingers tend to slip off the ends as you pull. Avid is different. We designed our levers with the pivot closer to the handlebar, in fact, closer than anyone else in the industry. The resulting lever movement has less inward travel, an arc that’s closer to your fingers’ natural motion and delivers more force to the brake. The cool part is, every Avid lever has it.
• Reach Adjust: When one finger has the power to control your ride, adjusting the levers to perfectly match your unique hands is seriously important—that’s why we put Reach Adjust on all of our levers.
• TaperBore Technology™: The term “TaperBore” refers to a unique patent-pending closure system in our Elixir and Code levers. It saves weight, looks super-sleek, improves lever feedback and most importantly–gives you more power and control.
• Top-loading Pads: When the only thing between you and the trail is bike maintenance, every second matters. With our top-loading pads, new disc-brake pads can be installed without taking off the wheel, working under the caliper or doing any upside-down pad juggling, so you’ll be ready to ride much quicker.
• Tri-Align™ Caliper Positioning System™: Another original Avid technology making your life better—there’s never been an easier brake to install and adjust. With Avid’s Tri-Align™Caliper Positioning System™, aligning the caliper to the rotor literally takes seconds. Just loosen the CPS™ bolts a little, and then squeeze the brake lever while re-tightening the bolts. Perfect caliper alignment—just like that.

Specifications:
• Weight: 392 grams (160mm rotor; front post mount)
• Lever: Material Tungsten Grey Aluminium, Carbon Fiber Lever option, Aluminium Body
• Caliper: Design 2 Piston, Forged 2-piece Aluminium
• Rotor: G3 CleanSweep
• Pad: Sintered, Top Loading
• Fluid: DOT 5.1
• Mount: Ambidextrous
• Adjustment: Reach Adjustment, Tri-Align Caliper Positioning,
• Special Features: TaperBore Technology, Matchmaker Compatible, Split Clamp

On the road or on rough ground, the C2 represents an ideal compromise between lightness and high levels of comfort. The silicone gel increases impact absorption power. The differentiated-thickness padding is covered with highly breathable leather.

Features:
• Weight: 240g
• Rail: Manganese Tube
• Dimensions: W135 x L278
• Usage: Road / Off Road / Free Ride
• LTH: Covering in breathable full grain leather.
• GEL FLOW: Inserts in silicone gel with differentiated thickness around cut.
• FC: Differentiated-thickness padding.
• N6: Shell made from Rylsan and Nylon N6