This is steering wildly of topic but I'll address the above issue as best I can then welcome more responses to the original question of How wilbers shocks are working out for owners under hard conditions.

It's funny how being unable to see or touch products by ordering online often ends up with a bad result. I think that's how it went sidways in this case. Let me explain:

When the shock showed up it looked like the provervbial hotdog thrown down a hallway! Great big spring with a lonley narrow little damping unit in the centre.

Bikes that get worked hard on trails flow a lot of oil back and forth thorugh the valves and chambers of shocks, this produces a lot of heat. Heat is the enemy! It ruins parts and performance of the shock suffers when too much heat is hanging around.

Modern long travel enduro/dirt shock designs encorporate lagre shock bodys. One of the functions of the large body is to increase oil capacity (often with remote chambers and their own cylinder fins) in an attempt to fight heat and the resultant negative effects on suspension.

The long travel design(lots of susp. movement) combined with low oil capacity, left me unconvinced the YSS was up to the difficult task of controlling heat produced by a hard working enduro bike. Short travel street bike, maybe.

There is not a single large capacity dirtbike produced in the last 30 years (stock or aftermarket)equipped with a tiny damper like this.

So it went back in the box.

This is speculation on my part but:

I think YSS stuffed one of their shocks intended for a dual shock rear end on a monoshock style assembly and called it good. Bit like trying to sell a knife to a guy heading to a gun fight. No thanks.

The product looked like a quality constructed item just not remotely correct for its intended use. Again, no modern enduro bikes are equipped with tiny dampers. If it looks like a pig, smells like a pig and acts like a pig...It's a pig.

Klaus was helpful and professional throughout this difficult process.

Just don't know why he tried to sell me a product that was wrong for the job.


Now:
I would still like to hear from owners of Wilbers shocks as to how they are working out. Specifically interested if some one has fitted a resivoir type shock to a the good old 43F! Thank you for your time and comments.

Cheers,

Pawlie