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The Fox Float X2 shocks, both air and coil, get an all-new design using a monotube shaft and new transverse compression damping circuit.
The goal? Make it smoother and stronger, and make it fit on more bikes, without giving up any of the adjustability. In fact, subtle tweaks make it more and easier to adjust, too.
A mountain bike version of trophy truck suspension was the goal, keeping your tires on the ground while the chassis floats smoothly above them. Fox thinks they’ve nailed it, calling the new Float X2 the definitive gravity shock, designed to pair perfectly with the GRIP X2 fork dampers that debuted in 2024. What’s Monotube? Why does it Matter?
2026 fox float x2 rear shock shown on a mountain bike. With the prior twin tube design, which quite literally uses a tube inside a tube in the damping system, Fox essentially had to make some internals smaller or use up valuable air spring volume to hold more of the damping architecture.
Switching to a monotube design gave them a lot more room to play with, so they made the air spring shaft bigger (1/2″ diameter, up from 3/8″) and more robust. That means it can better resist lateral and torsional loads from the mounting points, making it a stronger shock. Pressure Balancing is part of it
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