Rock Shox ha presentado sus novedades para el 2011 y aunque el Monarch Plus se está llevando casi todo el protagonismo a mi me ha gustado ver las mejoras que le han hecho al Monarch al que le han mejorado mucho la sensibilidad inicial...
Monarch: Solo Air improvements
“The number one request we’ve received is for improvements to small bump ride,” said Sander Rigney, RockShox's product manager. “We’ve developed a new Solo Air spring system, which applies to Monarch, Monarch Plus and carries over to our Vivid Air shock as well. There isn’t one point-to thing that makes the difference between the old Monarch and new Monarch; it’s a series of refinements to all of the components.
"We looked at everything from positive and negative air volumes to pressure ratios, surface finishes for the ID of the damper body, piston, air can, the type of sealing system for the piston and its lubrication .... All of these contribute to a vastly superior small bump ride.”
“The number one request we’ve received is for improvements to small bump ride,” said Sander Rigney, RockShox's product manager. “We’ve developed a new Solo Air spring system, which applies to Monarch, Monarch Plus and carries over to our Vivid Air shock as well. There isn’t one point-to thing that makes the difference between the old Monarch and new Monarch; it’s a series of refinements to all of the components.
"We looked at everything from positive and negative air volumes to pressure ratios, surface finishes for the ID of the damper body, piston, air can, the type of sealing system for the piston and its lubrication .... All of these contribute to a vastly superior small bump ride.”
Y la explicación sobre el tema de la presión auto-regulable de la camara negativa me ha encantado. si os fijais bien en las imagenes del Vivid Air cortado por la mitad, se ven las muescas que sirven para equilibrar la presión.
Both versions of the Monarch use Rockshox’s Solo Air, which means the positive and negative chambers are filled simultaneously and maintain fairly equal pressures. This is achieved by small notches inside the air chamber that, at a certain point in the travel, allow air to briefly move around the Air Piston. If you take a shock and compress it very slowly, you’d be able to notice a slight “give” as the piston moves over the notch. During normal riding, it’s imperceptible.