KW - Wait until you ride my '08 ATA with a very major damping mod that it will receive soon. I think you'll be impressed at what a proper shimmed damper can do.
My take on this recently is that LSC or compression immediately from zero speed up to whatever your blowoff point is just causes spiking on super high speed chatter that is mostly absorbed by your tires and translated into your suspension at a lower shaft speed. What you want is mid-speed support with a mellow levelling off to highspeed for rocks and larger edges. There are easy ways to get there with shim tuning, but the point is that the midrange and the transition point and duration is far more critical to tune than the high speed or low speed. Just my observations...
Edit: Your 07 ATA still has compression damping with the adjuster backed all the way off still. They're made to provide useable damping for all springrates and rider weights, so they are still useable for a normal sized rider at the lighter end of the range. Remove the damper and drill out the compression port to something huge if you want to experience no compression damping hehe...
My take on this recently is that LSC or compression immediately from zero speed up to whatever your blowoff point is just causes spiking on super high speed chatter that is mostly absorbed by your tires and translated into your suspension at a lower shaft speed. What you want is mid-speed support with a mellow levelling off to highspeed for rocks and larger edges. There are easy ways to get there with shim tuning, but the point is that the midrange and the transition point and duration is far more critical to tune than the high speed or low speed. Just my observations...
Edit: Your 07 ATA still has compression damping with the adjuster backed all the way off still. They're made to provide useable damping for all springrates and rider weights, so they are still useable for a normal sized rider at the lighter end of the range. Remove the damper and drill out the compression port to something huge if you want to experience no compression damping hehe...
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