Manitou Mara GEN 1 Inline with Shockcraft Ready Mix Tune

Ready Mix Tune for the Manitou Mara Generation 1 Inline is Shockcraft's unique Pick & Mix Self Tune system but the Picking, Mixing and Installation has been done by Shockcraft for you.

This tuning system gives you compression and rebound damping matched to your weight, bike, terrain and riding style.  It includes a new Manitou damper piston and reshimmed compression and rebound damping.

With the Ready Mix Tune we have 7 different compression and rebound tunes available, spanning 5 different grades.  These grades range from <40 kg children to >100 kg Dadzillas, with a choice of trail or XC feel.  Compression and rebound tunes are matched to spring-rates.  Rebound has the right combination of playfulness, poppiness and plantedness.  Compression is matched to stay stable, supportive and suck up bumps.  This provides huge changes in feel, speed and confidence.

Why Ride the Manitou Mara Inline Shocks?
Mara Inline shocks are light, tough, punch well above their weight and being inline shocks, have no fitment issues.  They can be rebuilt at home and are the perfect air shocks for 90-95% of the mountainbike trails worldwide.

Who Is Mara/McLeod Inline with McMara Pick & Mix Self Tune Ideal For?
•   Riders 40kg to ~120kg depending on frame leverage.
•   Bikes 100 mm to ~160 mm travel.
•   Riding XC race, trail through to light Enduro and E-bikes.
•   Riders who can do or organise basic air sleeve maintenance.
•   Riders who have a Pick & Mix Mezzer Pro or Mattoc Pro 2023 fork and want to match the feel front and rear.

Who Is It Not Ideal For?
•   If you want coil then you want coil.
•   Sizes top out at 230 mm eyelet and 205 mm trunnion, which is a hard limit for the big bikes.
•   Past 55 mm stroke riders on progressive leverage frames will want the bigger king-can air-can.
•   Big riders riding jump lines will find inline shocks rapidly heat and cool which speeds/slows the damping.  We can mitigate that with higher VI oil but ultimately those guys need to be on bigger shocks with more thermal mass.
•   People who never maintain their suspension.  The trapped negative means these shocks need an air-can reset and service roughly every 3 to 6 months.  The Generation 2 Mara Pro & Comp Inline rear shocks now have an active positive/negative system.  GEN 2 Mara Inline shocks are available with Ready Mix here.

Mara Inline Key Features

Incremental Platform Adjust (IPA) Damper

The four position Incremental Platform Adjust (IPA) damper offers a wide range of compression adjustment from an open mode ready to smash through rock gardens to a firm platform setting that offers the support you need while battling those leg burning climbs. It does this by utilizing two separate shim stacks to maintain an ideal balance of low-speed and high-speed compression damping throughout the adjustment range. The first of these is the preload stack which is controlled by the IPA knob. As you turn the knob clockwise you begin to increase the preload on the shims directly without the use of springs or carriers. The lack of springs and carriers minimizes moving mass and maximizes the speed at which the shims are able to respond to trail inputs keeping your rear wheel cool, calm, and collected no matter how choppy the trail is. The second shim stack is a fixed velocity stack that was carefully designed to increase small bump sensitivity and provide the correct amount of high-speed compression to control the wheel with the lowest amount of harshness. This provides the rider with more chassis control, better small bump sensitivity with excellent bottoming control, less deflection through the rock gardens and phenomenal ride quality in all conditions.

Rebound

The rebound on this shock is similarly controlled through two separate circuits. The first of which is a tapered needle that provides the ability to tune the rebound damping to account for rider weight, leverage ratio, and air spring settings. Adjustment of this needle through the knob affects the entire damping range but most noticeably controls the low-speed rebound. The second circuit is a fixed shim stack carefully optimized to preserve the correct high-speed rebound as the needle is adjusted up or down. This provides the rider more control, better traction and steering precision while minimizing the need to adjust for changing trail conditions.

Note on Shock Availability:
The Mara Inline Generation 1 shocks (excluding Imperial sizes) are on run-out pricing.  Sizes available as shown.  We also have a Ready Mix Tune option in the new Mara GEN 2 Pro & Comp rear shocks.  Details here.

Shock Stroke Change
There is no charge for stroke change for stock Mara Inline stroke sizes.  e.g. if we have a 210 x 50 mm shock in stock but you need a 210 x 55 mm shock there is no charge to change the stroke.

Shock Length Modification
Gen 1 Mara Inline shocks can have length reduced.  e.g. we can change a 190 x 50 mm to 185 mm x 45 mm.  Gen 2 cannot.