WHY CHANGE FROM AIR TO COIL SPRING?
When you go to choose you new fork or MTB generally the for will either be coil or air sprung, the latter being the more common, this is usually due to the ease of setting up for a vast range of rider weights, adjusting air pressure is quick and simple. If you are a relative newcommer to MTB this is as far as your thinking will go, the apparent ease of adjustment give you a degree of control over the type of feel you a looking for and there is a small weight saving over a coil fork but there are some parameters you may be over looking. An air sprung fork lacks the progressive feel and bump sensitivity that only a coil can give. If you run relatively high air pressures this can lead to sticky and harsh feeling fork especially on direction change for compression to rebound due to the seal working hard at keeping the air in its relative chambers. Wear on these seals can also lead to the user making componsatory damping adjustments to try an eleviaite the unwanted feel, also many harder ri
