Keep in mind all these 2025 Rockshox fork and shock updates from final week? Now you may get them with Flight Attendant digital suspension controls.
Earlier this 12 months, Rockshox made a variety of updates to Flight Attendant, letting it pull information from extra sensors on the bike, together with the AXS ecosystem of shifters, derailleurs, and energy meters, to higher perceive the way you’re driving your bike. It makes use of that information to study, after which customizes the suspension’s efficiency primarily based in your driving type, shifting and pedaling habits, and the terrain.
All of these updates have been first used on their XC merchandise (SID and SIDluxe), however now they’re including them to their full lineup of top-level path and enduro forks and shocks.
It really works the identical, studying out of your driving, robotically altering your compression damping settings between Agency, Pedal, and Open modes. So, it’s extra than simply “open or closed”, it’s really utilizing all three modes, and might alter the fork and shock independently for much more granular management.
You too can tune its bump tolerance, telling it to be kind of reactive to impacts, or simply manually management the modes together with your AXS shifter/dropper lever.
Along with the XC merchandise, Flight Attendant is now accessible on:
- Pike – 1,960g – $1,499 (29″, 140mm journey)
- Lyrik – 2,100g – $1,549 (29″, 160mm journey)
- ZEB – 2,450g – $1,599 (29″, 170mm journey)
- Tremendous Deluxe – 569g – $949
- Vivid Air – 780g – OE solely
- Vivid Coil – 960g – OE solely
Restricted improve choices for rear shocks are supplied for choose Specialised, Trek, Santa Cruz, and Yeti fashions to start out. You’ll want at the least a fork and pedal sensor (standalone spindle-based mannequin or Quarq powermeter spider) to make it work, however it will get higher whenever you add it to a full AXS-equipped bike with a Quarq powermeter.
Whilst you can improve 2023 and newer Pike, Lyrik & ZEB forks to have Flight Attendant, there are not any improve kits to transform your present rear shocks so as to add Flight Attendant to them. Aftermarket forks are offered with the journey listed above, however aftermarket journey adjustment/air spring kits can be found individually.
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