I ride a 2009 888 RC3 ATA. Not the most advanced piece of machinery I know but it's simple and RC3 performs better than I warrant.
What I am having trouble wrapping my head around is the use of independent tuning options for HS/LS compression. I understand the concept that you now have the ability to tune out fork dive a bit more but I don't understand why you would sacrifice your small bump compliance for a bit of dive. The way I understand it is every long travel fork with a DH tune on it suffers from dive...no exceptions.
I guess my questions is, if a high end company life Avalanche is choosing to use a single compression and rebound adjustment for their cart then what are the real advantages to having indi? Marketing bs?
I know with the FiT and MiCo DH you can tune your shimstack as well but dude...with that many options it seems like you would need to take a 10 hour course on suspension dynamics and then get 20+ hours of riding on the thing just to figure out where to start...that's not even considering that as soon as you ride a new trail your pretty much starting over.
Short of having a full blown suspension tech that dials your rig in for every ride how many people really need so many adjustments? Don't even start on dual rate rebound...
What I am having trouble wrapping my head around is the use of independent tuning options for HS/LS compression. I understand the concept that you now have the ability to tune out fork dive a bit more but I don't understand why you would sacrifice your small bump compliance for a bit of dive. The way I understand it is every long travel fork with a DH tune on it suffers from dive...no exceptions.
I guess my questions is, if a high end company life Avalanche is choosing to use a single compression and rebound adjustment for their cart then what are the real advantages to having indi? Marketing bs?
I know with the FiT and MiCo DH you can tune your shimstack as well but dude...with that many options it seems like you would need to take a 10 hour course on suspension dynamics and then get 20+ hours of riding on the thing just to figure out where to start...that's not even considering that as soon as you ride a new trail your pretty much starting over.
Short of having a full blown suspension tech that dials your rig in for every ride how many people really need so many adjustments? Don't even start on dual rate rebound...
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