Coil Shocks/Forks vs their air sprung counterparts...

JDRfive

Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of coil shocks and air shocks?

thanks

thel33ter

Coil is meant to be smoother and a bit plusher, and tougher. But is also heavier and you may need to change springs.

Air is light and very easy to fine tune, but apparently not as plush.

I find my air forks and shock perfectly smooth, but I haven't used decent coil bits.

JDRfive

Right okay.

I was considering upgrading my air tora 318s to a set of fox 32 vanillas, but is the difference in weight going to be substantial? And will it upset the balance of the bike if I still use a air rear shock?

supersonic

The balance won't be affected.

Which Vanillas are you looking at? The basic version is inferior to the Tora 318 in my opinion.

thel33ter

supersonic wrote:

The basic version is inferior to the Tora 318 in my opinion.

Why? Not arguing but seems a strange claim.

JDRfive

It was the basic £500 version. Why are they inferior?

peter413

You can get the RLC model for under 500

http://www.noahsark.co.uk/fox-32-vanilla-rlc-2009-standard-dropout-p-2179.html

JDRfive

ah ok, thank you.

if i got that model, supersonic, would it be better than the tora 318?