This shock comes with a notepad and a pencil. That sort of says it all. Cane Creek makes the most adjustable shocks on the market, but you can get lost setting the things up. Was that 15 clicks of low-speed compression and one-and-a-half turns of high-speed rebound? Two turns of high-speed compression and 11 clicks of low-speed rebound? That notepad comes in handy.
With the InLine, Cane
Creek took all of the features of its longtravel, piggyback Double Barrel shock
and squeezed them into a svelte, in-line package. That’s like ftting the
Sistine Chapel inside a broom closet. While it’s easy to mock the geek-factor
of this shock, the bottom line is that, with a little patience and a
3-millimeter hex wrench, you can achieve the kind of custom tuning you’d
otherwise only achieve after sending your shock to a pro for re-valving. I’d
tell you that this shock is supple on washboard sections with just the right
amount of ramp on drops, but that’s simply how I tuned it. While Cane Creek’s
recommended base-tune settings are pretty spot-on, you can make the InLine do
damn near anything.
If you relish climbing
with your shock in ultra-frm lock out mode, you may be unimpressed with Cane
Creek’s Climb Switch, which activates factory-set, climbing-specifc,
low-speed-compression and rebound-damping circuits. That lever reduces bobbing,
but the InLine is still more active than, say, the Fox Float X CTD in ‘Climb’
mode. The upside is that the InLine enables you to sit down and power through
rocky climbs with absolute control and grip.
There are simpler
shocks on the market, but a little time and effort spent with the InLine reaps
huge rewards.
PRICE 525$
