If space in your frame is tight, this might well be an option

Price: £499.95 • From: Windwave, shop.windwave.co.uk • Weight (w/o spring): 406g Adjustments: Low Speed Rebound, 3-position Compression (open, firm, lock-out), IFP bladder pressure

Two things that will make the DVO Jade X an instant option for a significant number of coil-curious riders: the piggyback layout and lockout. The first of those: the size, orientation and offset of the piggyback, means that the Jade X Coil doesn’t foul as many frame designs as some other piggyback coil shocks do. It’s a modest-size piggyback that’s basically turned 90° for maximum discreteness. This alone is worthy of praise as it can be really annoying to get excited about a coil shock purchase only to find that it will clash with your frame layout and/or water bottle placement (see the RockShox Super Deluxe Ultimate RCT in this test). As regards the lockout, that’s exactly what it is. Locked the f**k out. One for those who just flit between fire road climbs and full-on descents. That said, there is a mid setting which you could perhaps call ‘pedal’? This setting does firm things up significantly but it also adds an undesirable degree of choppiness to the ride, not to mention a distracting ‘gasping’ noise as it compressed and decompressed. The shock didn’t feel or sound like it liked to be in this middle ‘pedal’ setting. We did wonder if this gasping noise was a result of insufficient pressure in the adjustablepressure IFP bladder. But it was still there even after reinflating up to recommended pressures (and even beyond).