The Ebonite-Bandit is the next chapter of Blackline Rightsideup forks at Intend. Increasing the stiffness of the complete fork/frame/handlebar system, especially hard and heavy riders benefit from this architecture.
The Bandit construction improves not only the discbrake side with more strength and stiffness, but also gives more space for any improvements of the air spring system. Larger negativ chamber? No problem, Lager positive chamber? yes, second positive chamber? yes.
Yes, the second positive chamber in the Ebonite fork is pressurized with higher pressure then the first air chamber. The lower initial pressure improves the small bump sensitivity, while it ramps up faster until it reaches the pressure of the second chamber, then they act like one big chamber with less progression.
And the big benefit of the Ebonite-bandit is, that you can set the limit of movement of the seperating piston and tune the progression in the last 20mm of the stroke to your personal needs. Sounds good ? Yes - is good!
The Air spring needs the following steps for setup:
Do not inflate the lower chamber first! Always start with the upper chamber.
Do not release air of the lower chamber with your fingernail - always with a mounted shockpump!
1. Inflate air in the upper chamber, approx your riderweight x 1,5 = pressure in PSI. E.g. 120 PSI for 80kg rider weight
2. Inflate air in the lower chamber , appro halb of the pressure of the upper chamber. E.g. In our case 120PSI / 2 = 60PSI.
3. To increase or decrease end progression, release air of the lower chamber completely with mounted pump, relase air
of the upper chamber (here no pump is needed) and unscrew the upper topcap with a 13mm hex socket. Install the long M6
bolt to a less-proession-position by turning in the M6 screw and to a more-progession-position by turning it out.Leave at least
a thread length of 5mm in the socket.
Torques of the upper crown:
5mm allen-key: 10-12Nm
4mm allen-key: 5Nm
To disassemble the crown it can halp to take a softhammer.
