I much prefer my Rancho 9000s over the Bilsteins that Marlin sells. I don't run bump stops (probably should) and I hammered on the Bilsteins while in Moab. They bottomed out constantly while crawling. The Rancho 9000s have pretty much the same travel and I think I hit bottom once or twice over this last week in Moab. The Bilsteins seemed great on the street and maybe even better but off-road they stink of in my opinion. I suspect that running bump stops would somewhat mask what I expereinced because it would be seen as simply maxing out the travel and not as much of a difference in the shock performance.
