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Venturerider Brothers and Sisters where has the time gone. It’s been almost 4 years since my original post. The 2000 miles I mentioned became 35,000 miles and my original repair finally failed last fall just prior to a trip to Southern Virginia. It failed again during the trip. I have had 3 premature failures that I know of. My shock and one of our members were repaired and had failed at about the same time. I had increased the fluid refill in both from 125ml to 150ml. That may have been the issue and I haven’t done that again. The other was a pinched O ring. To date I have replaced the O ring in about 70 RSV shocks with a very good success rate. I have documented the process and designed a simple tool to extend the shock to expose the O ring. If anyone would like this info send me a PM. Thanks to all who have supported me in my efforts especially DaNetFlunky and Rbig1 for donating their failed shocks to stock the initial exchange program. I have a third exchange unit and for the life of me I can’t remember who donated it but thank you also. Ride safe and ride smooth! Fitz

And then, remembering how helpful to some viewers on youtube the short video we did for @VentureFar about slow riding Tweeks was (determined by the view count/comments and "liked" count), I thought maybe a short video on throttle/brake control might be helpful to older people like ourselves attempting to get back into "biking" and entering the E-Bike world too. Practice practice practice still seems applicable IMHO.. At any rate,,, here is a peek at that video too for anyone interested.. GET OUT AND RIDE YOU BUNCH OF LOP EARED VARMINTS!! Here is copy/paste of the "copy" for this video too: ""Years ago a friend of mine ask me to produce a "How to slow ride a touring motorcycle" video demonstrating how my wife and I control our touring bike in tight crowd conditions (think Sturgis Rally environments) or off road conditions and it was a huge hit on youtube (search my youtube channel if interested in that). I have been spending hours in a parking lot working with my riding partner on developing muscle memory responses for controlling her new E-Bike under similar conditions as mentioned earlier and as commonly found on many bike paths in populated areas. She is finding this training VERY useful not only in crowds but also in preparing to cross intersections and is doing GREAT!! If you are brand new to E-Bikes or, even bicycles for that matter, I implore you to find a parking lot and practice practice practice these, and other safety practices BEFORE heading out to the open road of adventure. Puc""

Lay the tool on the square part of the cam shaft, rotate the engine so that the tool turns to the outside of the head tail first. Carefully rotate and watch that the edges on the tool catch the buckets on both valves nice and square. Rotate until you feel a stopping/increase of resistance. Shims should now be available for removal. Use a pick or small screwdriver to pop them up and use a magnet to lift them out. You will have to do a test and reset to get the tool in the right position for all this to happen properly.

You have to turn it backwards to remove the tool.

I just went through Zion last week and spent two days there. Weather was perfect. Not sure if that was normal or an anomaly for mid-May, but I loved it. For your return ride, consider hiway 50 from Colorado Springs to Montrose, shoot up to 70 and then find 128 on the map and take it into Moab. You will not be disappointed. The ride into & through Zion was awesome! We came into Zion via the eastern route via 89 to 9. Ride Safe!