TTX is a completely different design, unlike conventional shim stack on piston setups. The piston is solid and pushes/pulls fluid through each of the twin tubes where the valving and adjusters reside.
Any shock is only as good as the valving. The 888 is excellent with minor tweaking, primarily adding rebound. You just have to have this tight enough because if you try and adjust too much in with the clicker, you introduce "cross talk" which affects the compression. Once you understand that the rebound clicker should not be run in past 15 clicks and adjust the stack, all is good. I did very well on the bike this past year and it did not beat me up or hold me back at all.
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