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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2017 6:27 pm 
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I found this nice article/video on how to adjust your suspension. It goes a bit beyond the basic adjustments I've seen in other sites but is still designed to done within 10 minutes. Hopefully this is not total crap.

http://www.bikeradar.com/us/gear/articl ... ion-32460/

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Pay close attention to the section around the 5 min mark in regards to spacers. For me, being a fat old Clyde, had a very hard time getting the rear shock correct. Too little air to get a smoother travel and it bottoms easy. Too much air to keep it from bottoming out and it rode like HT. I installed the #3 spacer in my fox shock replacing the #1 that came with it and it is fantastic (for me). It took about 3 mins and $30.
If you're the perfect weight it's probably not an issue but for others that are too light or heavy this is worth looking into.

Thanks for posting it up :thumbsup:

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So I tried this out. When I got to the part about setting rebound on the fork (7:25) what I found is that fork never really releases to come off the ground, even when it's in the fastest setting. Does this mean it's time to get the fork serviced?

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Thanks for the post. It was very informative.

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Avidtest and I did some comparisons with fork rebound on Saturday morning. His wasn't exactly bouncing off the ground either, so it's possible that part of the video may not apply to all forks (or only to brand new ones that are well lubricated). I'm thinking the best way to tune fork rebound may be to try the ride-off-the sidewalk test in standing/attack position.

Another thing we noticed when we were tuning my suspension on the trails was that Avidtest runs considerably less sag (<20%) than I do (30%+). Our theory is that I like more sag b/c I tend to run into issues with hitting rocks at slow speeds which almost completely bring me to a full stop. Since I'm going slow I need better slow-speed bump compliance. Avid is going a lot faster so he really doesn't have to worry about slow-speed impacts and is more concerned about bottoming out.

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As I get older, I'm getting faster(not!) so I think I'll have a look at my old Jokers' sag-o-meter on the Lyrik stanchions and see what kinda sag I'm using these days.
I remember that 20+ years ago I had the sag on both front and rear of my bikes set at very small percentiles. Seemed to be what I wanted, but actually I think now if I would have just forced myself to ride with a higher % of sag I might have ended up preferring it.

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