![]() RockShox has come up with a design that has an extremely fine-tunable air spring, and, if you poke around a little on their website, an almost infinitely tunable damping configuration. There’s actually a third personal issue that bears mentioning here. I wouldn’t mind having a few more available clicks. It’s just barely enough to keep the rebound stroke on the suspension in check. But if I were any heavier or if the leverage ratio on my bike were a little higher, I wouldn’t have ridden it. I’ve had the rebound damper knob maxed out since I’ve had the shock. The second is that with the low-compression damping tune…I got the low-rebound damping tune. It still leaks a little, and there may be something breached elsewhere, but fixing the valve helped. This isn’t that big of a deal, I just pulled the core (with a cheap tool available at any auto parts store), wrapped the threads with teflon tape, and reinstalled. After some soapy water spray, I found the leak at the Schrader valve. Every ride I was having to refill the main air spring chamber. The first one is that the thing leaked air. Two aspects of the shock have stuck out as issues. Like I said, a lot of things shocks come with, as far as settings, are more geared toward frames that don’t work as well as some of the better designed quad-link bikes. I did, however, prefer the full open setup, and most of my riding was done there. I didn’t do a whole lot of descending in setting 3, but setting 2 was so subtle that I think it would be a legit “set and forget” option for a lot of frames that suffer from a little bounce when climbing or stand-up mashing. It’s a much more refined feeling that any of the probably dozen RP variety shocks I’ve had from Fox. It’s really not very apparent that there’s any sort of threshold being breached, it really does feel like more well-tuned, low-speed compression damping being applied. ![]() The two settings above open not only work, they work very smoothly. The lever blocks oil transfer to the ding dong to various degrees and has an override when you hit things, to allow the suspension to compress. Unique to the RC3 is that this system is separate from the normal compression tune so it should behave the same across all available tuning scenarios (assuming RS uses the same weight oil between them). Like the RP23, there are three additional compression damping settings intended to be used in various riding conditions. ![]() The RC3 moniker comes from the three settings available in a little lever that cuts off the port to the piggyback reservoir (referred to here earlier as the ding dong). ![]()
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