Features
Quarq ShockWiz Black Standard features is:
- Revolutionary innovation
- Performance that is simply second to none
- Achieve the ultimate ride
- Model number: 00.3018.180.000
Reviews
Below are some critical reviews about Quarq ShockWiz Black StandardI am, no doubt, the exact type of person this product is made for. I have 5 full suspension bikes that I use for all sorts of different scenarios. I race enduro on a 170mm slacked out Nomad, and I race XC on a 100mm Scalpel. I have a 27.5+ bike, a fat bike, and a dual crown DH bike that I do a ton of lift-served downhill on. I use my bikes for DH, for XC, on rocky trails, in the snow, on fast single track, you name it. So when I started seeing positive reviews for this on MTBR, I was pretty excited. For example, I have a Nomad - I use it for Enduro racing (pedal up, rip it down), local XC rides with my friends, pure DH days, technical single track and the occasional easy XC day. On top that, I am an OCD-About-Stats kind of guy, so this was totally right in my wheelhouse.I'd imagine this product gets returned a lot by people who do one thing with one bike, because if you use it and it sets your one bike up correctly you really don't need it again. That's not me - I have lots of bikes that I use for lots of things. Unfortunately after two weeks with it (about 150 miles of MTB across 4 bikes) I ended up returning it as well.It's just too inconsistent. I have a standard local loop that I do that has everything this needs for a 100% confidence score. Twisties, rocks, climbs, descents, jumps, sprints - it's perfect. So I rode the heck out of it starting with one bike. I tweaked, rode, calibrated, tweaked rode, and gave it enough data to say "All good" several times. I'd get my suggestions almost perfectly in the green, but I'd do it:- 100PSI, no spacers, rebound all the way slow- 80 PSI, no spacers, rebound in the middle- 80 PSI, 1 or 2 spacers, rebound in the middle- 90 PSI, no spacers, rebound all the way fastYou get the idea. I'm riding the hell out of the same loop, 10-20 miles at a time, at about the same pace. And the ShockWiz is telling me that my "ideal" setup is wildly different each time. A bike with 100psi in the fork and the rebound fully slow feels and handles completely different than a bike with 90 psi, 2 spacers and the rebound in the middle. I don't need Shockwiz to tell me that- I can feel it.So which is best? I have no idea. I went through the above with 4 different bikes. I rode a TON, I calibrated a TON, and at the end of the day I just kind of shrugged my shoulders because my setups that I do by feel are pretty close to some of the Shockwiz recommendations, and they feel better to me.If this was $125 or $150 I'd have kept it for the geek factor. But its not - it's $325, and it's wildly inconsistent, and for that price it shouldn't be. Others have had better luck with this, but it's not for me. I can't rely on it, so I ended up returning it.
I just sent this email (8-25-19) through the ShockWiz contact form on their website And will update this review when or if I hear back.“I am about four hours of ride time on Monday shock with us. However, it showing this, which makes no since to me.1. Temperature set at 88F degrees, displays 190 degrees (always reads over 170 degrees. It always displays about 100 degrees over real temperature.2. Average jump : 420 MS. What is MS?3. Total air time: 840 MSAnd, after I put my serial number in above it displays “ Ya ya thanks u. U you y u. A u sq. Chaya. S us u t. U u. Uh u y. Adyasynofka the mumu“.Please let me know how to fix this, or I will need to return it. With all of these errors, I can’t trust any recommendations or statistics. Without a reliable app, this product is useless.Oops, just realized that none of my jpg files uploaded here. Another error. “
I had this installed on my bike with the bike resting against a wall. The bike slipped and fell over (gently it basically slide down against the wall)...and this snapped the top cap off my $850 forkright at the point where it was screwed in literally took it off with a part of the top cap and the schrader valve stuck in the shockwiz. Now I'm stuck with a broken fork looking for replacement parts.Update on this: I was able to find a replacement top cap assembly on ebay which fixed the fork for 40 bux. The bike fell on the opposite side and did not even touch that part - I think the shockwiz unit got hit moved and exerted pressure on the cable connection to the fork snapping it off (fox 34 perf elite)
Below are some positive reviews about Quarq ShockWiz Black Standard
As a long time avid mountain biker, I felt like I knew what my suspension settings needed to feel like or be. That's more or less true. This didn't drastically alter my settings with its recommendations, but it DID made some recommendations, and those changes did help. I sort of feel like as I've purchased a bike with newer suspension, the design of that suspension has gotten better, that I rode the bike and set it by feel and got to a point where it was better than my last bike, and thought that must be it, and I quit playing with settings, but this made it even better, so I obviously hadn't played enough. I think the real reason I picked this up was to help my family set their suspension up, because sometimes they don't know how to tell me what they feel - this way they just ride, and I look at what their app says afterwards, and make the changes. It's working well on that front too.
The product works great if it works with your setup. I looked on their website and it stated it would work with my shock and fork. Unfortunately I had components that were proprietary. Cannondale had Fox build a special fork and shock for my trigger 1 and the Shockwhiz would not read them properly. At first I thought there was a problem with the Shockwhiz, but I tried it on a buddies bike to see if it was the Shockwhiz and the Shockwhiz worked perfectly. After several calls to Quarq and Fox we found out the propriety components would not work. It’s a great product but verify your components work first.
Bike rides better than I had expected. I thought I knew my adjustments. Now I know what riding with them set right feels like
