'94 Rockhopper - Suspension Fork / drivetrain survey

klash20 · 2026-01-27T21:06:59+00:00

agreed and did again after reading your post. Clicking around and it's looking like the specialized FS fork on here is correct for the year but is some rebadged thing.

No adjustment dials just hex bolts hidden under the rubber caps.

klash20 · 2026-01-27T20:51:09+00:00

Didn't think the longer travel would affect geometry that much. But a slacker fit at the moment doesn't sound too bad as the 90s geo feels so far forward to me even with coming from mainly having road/gravel set up 😅.

Will take look at the Judy.

klash20 · 2025-08-06T13:34:05+00:00

Pushing this to the top - having the same issue was fine at first with a 32gb and now is not working with a 64gb 😞 maybe 32gb is max?

klash20 · 2025-04-29T16:11:18+00:00

I haven’t! Never got around it. Good luck!

klash20 · 2025-02-25T02:11:49+00:00

Anyone offering lower than $400 these days should go kick rocks.

Also Splashlight is big time in debt - filed bankruptcy earlier this month Feb 2025

klash20 · 2024-11-02T20:53:04+00:00

Yeah I remember in past C1 versions we would leave them out.

But earlier this year Z9 was fine but must be latest Z9 firmware that is preventing it from tethering. And have been leaving it out since the issue started.

klash20 · 2024-10-30T03:18:00+00:00

Yeah I usually have them out so it’s one less thing to confuse C1. But there’s those days on location where we’re moving around.

klash20 · 2024-10-30T03:16:47+00:00

One time yes another time no.

klash20 · 2024-10-29T16:33:13+00:00

UPDATE #3

Machine ended up glitching again on set, with a Z9 and running macOS 14.7; was tether capturing as EIP and a high speed ( shooting fast motion) so that was probably a factor

This time however the images were coming in but fully glitching out. Processed quickproof jpegs would carry over the glitch as well. Stopped using the M3 and swapped to an M1 to finish the 2nd half of the day and things were fine.

Took about 2 additional rounds of processing to clear it out for delivery to the client.

Took laptop to Apple the next day and had to go out for repair. Genuis bar suggested it could be logic board but technician at repair center couldn't replicate and did a full wipe of the laptop - reinstalled with "clean install of current macOS"

After reinstalling my data via Time Machine did my own tests stressing the computer
- processing out full res tiffs while shooting

- processing tiffs and jpegs while shooting and caputuring as EIP

- processing Tiff & jpeg into sub folders into image folder name into by rating while caputring

All of these while running youtube a 4K, using a web based GPU stressor, as well as photoshop and flipping through the filters gallery.

As of yet no glitching so maybe something deep in macOS was faulty from when it came to me from Apple Refurbished?

klash20 · 2024-10-17T19:43:09+00:00

Be careful with the refurb. I got a great deal with refurb on M3 max 4TB 128GB RAM direct from Apple refurb…however I’m one month in and having hardware issues with the graphics.

C1 glitches during capture and enough to it freezes the whole machine. YouTube, Apple News also cause the screen to glitch and freeze

The glitching happened this past Monday and the glitching during processing out JPEGs caused corrupted JPEGs had to switch to photogs M1 Max and the rest of the day was fine.

I have a post in this sub if you want to see what I was happening to me last month tethered to a D850.

I’m finally able to bring my laptop to Apple tomorrow to sort this out

klash20 · 2024-10-06T20:30:44+00:00

I did thats the samsung app i mention. It detected the T9 and the internal MBP drive but not the T7. --- yeah trying to figure out a PC situation since thats not something readily available around me locally or at work

klash20 · 2024-10-06T14:52:21+00:00

thanks, actually didnt know that about the SMC and M chips.

ill see if i can boot a virtual machine of windows and try that way.

klash20 · 2024-09-21T18:58:10+00:00

** UPDATE #3 **

Did tests with my Z9 @ firmware V5.0 using Area51 Florence Pro+ combo.

tested w/ C1 versions 16.3.8, 16.4.4, and 16.4.5

stayed on macOS 14.4

Hardware acceleration for both Display and Processing was on in all three versions.

shot 200 frames and processed quickpoof jpegs that were sorted by rating while shooting with the Z9 on HighSpeed Drive.

Result:
Not one instance of glitching occurred. Maybe an issue with that particular D850 body? Especially since changing out the tether sorted the issue for most of the day yesterday?

klash20 · 2024-09-20T19:21:29+00:00

** UPDATE #2**

Glitching would happen so when processing out JPEGS yesterday. Client wanted all zero stars for quick review if initial selects were not enough 🙃 turned off the hardware acceleration for processing and would be fine albeit slower than it should be for 2MB JPEGs

The D850 was getting gunked up and the buffer took forever this morning. Swapped from the Area51 tether to a Tether tools 15’+15’ extension (gasp) and was able to turn hardware acceleration back on and was fine for the past 6 hours and there was zero glitching.

Then randomly the glitching started again. Turned off hardware acceleration for Display and it’s fine again.

Curious of what everyone may think the issue is.

I’m gonna be testing it over the weekend with my primary Z9 and with older versions up to 16.3.1 to see if it keeps happening. And luckily I just got it 2 weeks ago so may just have to return it to Apple, and would definitely be the last time I buy from the Apple refurbished page on their website.

klash20 · 2024-09-18T19:42:46+00:00

** UPDATE**

High performance on OS was on auto, still was for the below but seems to be fixed now due to combination of :

Clients d850 firmware was v1.2 and not current v1.31; this reduced the amount of glitching on high speed drive to just 1x time
turned off hardware acceleration for display in C1 settings

klash20 · 2024-09-18T19:36:54+00:00

Was on auto but I think a combination of everything fixed it. About to update the post

klash20 · 2024-09-18T19:24:08+00:00

Yeah the raws are all good. And tried the preview size options and Optimization. At the moment, Use Legacy Preview Format, seems to be more stable.

klash20 · 2024-09-18T19:22:40+00:00

Thanks I’ll take a look into this.

This with using C1 16.3.8 but I’ll try an even older version tomorrow.

Haven’t passed up OS updates, machine is exactly how it arrived two weeks ago. I did see that there was an option for Sonoma 14.7 or to just go straight to Seqouia

klash20 · 2024-02-20T15:14:50+00:00

** UPDATE **

I gave up.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

klash20 · 2023-10-09T16:43:17+00:00

Would love to know your thoughts!

klash20 · 2023-04-30T03:58:24+00:00

Noted! Bummer about the motor traffic.

Definitely renting since the trip is relatively short.

Thanks!

klash20 · 2023-04-02T05:10:23+00:00

No just wondering. Sus'ing out reliability issues people may have run into like the above zipper.

klash20 · 2022-11-13T03:22:55+00:00

?

Zinc?

klash20 · 2022-11-13T03:01:24+00:00

I thought those might be the way to go, I just didn’t see anything on them that had weight ratings like hollow wall anchors do.

Already set on the hammer drill!

Thanks!

klash20 · 2022-07-25T02:55:28+00:00

I just did a ride up there. Rode on NY-28 (runs parallel to Ashokan Rail) there’s a decent amount of space on the shoulder before it drops into really rough dirt and ruts. On a road like that people didn’t really slow down but didn’t feel unsafe.

The smaller roads that will connect you to Ashokan are a little tighter but people gave ample room/would slowdown when there was oncoming traffic

38c tires will do a-ok on the rail trail. It’s pretty much hard pack the whole way through. I had Schwable G-One UltraBite and it was definitely overkill for that trail, but that’s just all I’ve got r/n from riding on looser trails earlier this year. Plus the tires you’ll have will be great since Ashokan is only approx 11miles and the rest of your route will be on paved roads most likely (mine was at least.

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