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After launching the Fox Neo dropper post last month , Fox updated their bike app to allow users to connect and tune the dropper posts. But the header image on one of the pages featured a picture of not only a dropper post but a rear shock too. Now, Fox has revealed the details of that shock – introducing Fox Live Valve Neo.
First introduced in 2018, Fox Live Valve attempted to usher us into the modern era of electronically controlled suspension. At the time, the only way for the system to communicate fast enough was to rely on wires to connect all the components. It also included electronic suspension control for the Fox-only fork and a fairly large battery. All of these things combined led to limited adoption of the Live Valve system. Which brings us to Neo.
On the surface, the general idea of Live Valve Neo is the same, but it goes about it in a more simple and universal way. Most obviously, the system is now without any wires. That’s thanks to Fox’s in-house wireless communication protocol which is claimed to deliver signals from the fork and rear sensors to the controller “in around one millisecond.” Fox points out that the latency, or delay of data transfer for standard Bluetooth can be up to 200 milliseconds.
That speed means a Live Valve […]
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