Some people are over 200 pounds but ride with style. Others are under 200 pounds and charge hard popping off of every root and rock.
The stock settings on forks as well as recommended settings are guidelines for your average rider. This works for probably 90 % of the riders. Still if you don't know what you are doing when you adjust the knobs you just as easily make your fork feel worse!
If you invested in a thousand dollar fork spend the hundred bucks to get it tuned to your riding style.
If you have the inclination to tweek your knobs........
High speed compression adjusts the dampening to big hits and square edge bumps at high speed.
Low speed compression adjust the dampening to small frequencies. Your average trail chatter.
Rebound is tricky. You want it fast enuf so the fork can return to the top of the travel with out being too fast.
Slow rebound will cause your fork to "pack up" and not stay in the middle or top of the travel.
Note: on a DH run you should bottom out the fork quite a bit. Its called using all your travel.
The stock settings on forks as well as recommended settings are guidelines for your average rider. This works for probably 90 % of the riders. Still if you don't know what you are doing when you adjust the knobs you just as easily make your fork feel worse!
If you invested in a thousand dollar fork spend the hundred bucks to get it tuned to your riding style.
If you have the inclination to tweek your knobs........
High speed compression adjusts the dampening to big hits and square edge bumps at high speed.
Low speed compression adjust the dampening to small frequencies. Your average trail chatter.
Rebound is tricky. You want it fast enuf so the fork can return to the top of the travel with out being too fast.
Slow rebound will cause your fork to "pack up" and not stay in the middle or top of the travel.
Note: on a DH run you should bottom out the fork quite a bit. Its called using all your travel.