Broadaxe Reba Air Solo Tuning 29Apr16

I mentioned in a prior post that the new Broadaxe was harsh on descent. I was not liking the 120mm Reba Air 29 Solo fork and the only adjustments were air pressure and rebound. Hmmm... to the web I went and others had this same issue... either too stiff (with "correct" pressure) or bottoming out (with lower pressure). SRAM listened and addressed it by offering "bottomless tokens" (see pic) which attach inside the active side of the shock and take up air space. Lower air volume makes the shock behave more non-linearly... softer at the start of the stroke and stiffer deeper into the stroke. I ordered a set of tokens off eBay but when I went to install them my fork was an earlier model without the threading to accept them... grrr. I thought I was screwed but went to the LBC to see if the air chamber cap piece (see pic - this is the non-threaded one) was a part available compatible with my fork but newer so as to have threading for token installation. Woohoo; for $18 bucks I got a replacement part compatible with my fork and I've installed two tokens. I can already feel a big difference in the garage (today not being a great test ride day with 10" of snow).