Spotted on the Santa Cruz Nomad CC show bike in the Hope booth at this year’s Eurobike show were two tasty little surprises from Swedish suspension legend Öhlins: a damper upgrade for the venerable RockShox Pike and a new coil-sprung piggyback rear shock. The company has not formally announced either but performance-minded enduro riders might want to start saving their pennies.
Öhlins’ existing STX22 cartridge upgrade for the Fox 40 downhill fork doesn’t try to wow you with a dizzying array of knobs and dials. External adjustments are intentionally limited, and all of the critical settings require tearing things apart inside. This is Öhlins’ standard mode of operations, though, to supply its customers with what it feels is the best overall stock tune, and limit the ways in which people can screw that up.
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It looks like Öhlins has a new damper cartridge coming for the popular RockShox Pike
Likewise, the upcoming Pike cartridge upgrade is almost disappointingly devoid of external doodads. There are just adjustment knobs – one for low-speed rebound damping and another for low-speed compression damping – and they’re both tooled, meaning you won’t be tempted to just mindlessly fiddle away at the top of every run. Any high-speed damper adjustments will require swapping out shims in the piston heads.
Based on what we now about the STX22, this Pike-specific version will be a fully sealed, drop-in system with a coil spring-backed internal floating piston up top to prevent oil cavitation, and to allow fluid expansion as the system heats up. Nestled into the compact gold-anodized top cap next to the compression adjuster is what we believe to be a bleed port to evacuate any air pressure that might accumulate over time in the IFP chamber.
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