I recently switched out the stock blue spring for a purple spring. Special thanks to lachameleon over on mtbr.com for sending me the spring.
I weigh 145ish lbs which is below what the blue is rated for and decided to switch because it felt a bit too hard and I wasn't getting full travel.
However I think the reason for not getting full travel was because I had one spacer in the fork. According to the manual, 1 spacer = 100mm travel and 2 spacers = 125mm.
Here's a pic of another person's 05 vanilla. Notice the two spacers.
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=55408
So far I still haven't gotten full travel, however it does feel a lot better. I even took a bit of time afterwards to play with the rebound and it climbs a LOT better now.
I weigh 145ish lbs which is below what the blue is rated for and decided to switch because it felt a bit too hard and I wasn't getting full travel.
However I think the reason for not getting full travel was because I had one spacer in the fork. According to the manual, 1 spacer = 100mm travel and 2 spacers = 125mm.
Here's a pic of another person's 05 vanilla. Notice the two spacers.
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=55408
So far I still haven't gotten full travel, however it does feel a lot better. I even took a bit of time afterwards to play with the rebound and it climbs a LOT better now.
