mike157

I was then 290 and also rode with a full fuel caddy and everything but the kitchen sink in my tunnel bag.................but 9 years!!!!!!! That's crazy

I'm about 260 and usually have a fuel caddy on the back most of the time, I ran heavier torsion springs on the back up on the highest setting the rear suspension wouldn't bottom out unless it was a really hard hit but that meant it was rock hard on the trails without much give at all.

I've got a pair and paid $279 for mine when I bought them, they are pretty good good goggles and take good quality only complaints I've had is that if it is a really bright day sometimes they seem a little too bright when facing into the sun and they fit a little tight in my helmet because of the battery back sticking out.

I've got some videos I've taken with them Here if anyone wants an Idea on the quality of the video.

I rode year 1 on stock adrenaline shocks and for the life of me I don't know how I did it

I rode for 9 years on stock adrenaline shocks..... definetly time for a change haha.

They can be made to be quite good.  A couple of questions:  How agressively do you ride, and have riden so hard your old shocks faded (got weaker) the more you rode for the day.  Then the next day they started OK, then got worse again?

If you answered NO to the second question,  you probably do not need the added expense of a ressie shock.  The main advantage to a non-adjustable ressie shock is the added oil.  The more oil you have, the more resistant they are to fading.

If you do ride hard enough to fade your old shocks, they you may want to step up to the ressie shock to help prevent that.

While my trail sled has C36 (remote ressie adjustable) shocks, I really don't need them.  I have standard HPG aluminum bodied shocks on my mountain sled and ride it here in Iowa and rode it on my last trip to Minocqua and had not issues fading shocks.  I go about 250lbs, and ride pretty hard for a guy with titanium knees.  We did about 200 miles in conditions that people were quiting after about 60 miles. 20" of new snow, no groomers out (to speak of) and about 50million people riding (exageration).

You can get a set of montube shocks for about half a set of ressies.

Just some things to think about since you said you didn't really want to spend a bunch of coin on shocks.

I do experience fade with the stock shocks. I really noticed it this year we had a strange winter, very cold with less snowfall than usual so for alot of the winter everything was icy and rough. Most of the guys I ride with have newer sleds with much better shocks and I'm beating myself to pieces over stuff they don't find that bad at all, same thing when hitting jumps or drops, I'll go off of something and land hard and my buddies will do the same thing and not find it bad at all and they really are too soft for riding without a swaybar.

I guess I'm going to have to spend some money if I want to get the most out of it. I was looking at some zbros shocks, they look very nice but expensive.

How good are the doo piggybacks? what are some of you running for shocks? I need front shocks and back shocks for next season It's hard to decide what to go with lots of good shocks out there but I don't really want to have to spend $2000 for shocks. I would imagine anything is going to be a huge improvement over the stock adrenaline shocks they'll rattle your brains on the bumpy trails and almost knock you off on hard landing off a jump and are not really stiff enough when running without a swaybar.