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looking for source to learn about suspension

BarbaRosa

BarbaRosa

Monkey
Aug 30, 2001
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northern colorado, will travel for rides
Hay

i am a freeride newbie... my mt bike is a 16 yr old machine that still is my trailbike and depending on who i am ridign with and where, will determine what bike i ride.

but i just got a 2002 bighit comp with Romic shock and 2003 Manitou Sherman Firefly fork, i need to go back out and see which hayes disk set up this has, but what are good sources about learning about the workings of the set up configs on these things? full free ride bikes that is

i will set the steeper head angle since my old ride is 17.frame with xtra long old school T-bone stem so the handleing i am used to is twitchy... and i will be trail riding the bighit up and focus being riding off and over boulders and down steeps that i could not pull off with out shocks and travel.... so i will keep the rock ring on and all...

but the bike came with both titanium springs in a baggi and some stiffer ones in the forks and i really know nothing about maint for the brakes and shoks. and or the different settings on the romic and front forks too....

any of you all that can point me at some good reading material... that would be cool.

thanks...

justin just south of fort collins coloradical
 
Kornphlake

Kornphlake

Turbo Monkey
Oct 8, 2002
2,632
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Portland, OR
If you're patient you can search individually for the parts you have questions about and find answers to most of it here. If you're expecting there to be a book that teaches you everything then you'll be dissapointed because that book hasn't been written just yet. Maybe you could try tracking down an owners manual and that would have some useful information. Or maybe not, I've yet to read a useful owners manual, but I've yet to read a secialized manual either. If you've got big doubts and don't have any idea what you're doing your LBS should be able to get the bike dialed in pretty close.
 
mplutodh1

mplutodh1

Monkey
Nov 27, 2002
744
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Sammamish, WA
Those pages will give you general guidelines for setting up your equipment. A good technique when it comes to tuning suspension is grab one of those small flip notepads and jot down the following information everytime you ride:

Date:
Location:
Terrain overview: (rough? rocky? wet? fast? off camber? etc)
Fork Rebound Setting: (# of turns/clicks out from all the way in; split into high speed and low speed if the fork has it)
Fork Compression Setting: (# of turns/clicks out from all the way in; split into high speed and low speed if the fork has it)
Air Pressure: if the fork is an air for record these numbers
Shock Rebound Setting: (# of turns/clicks out from all the way in; split into high speed Shock Compression Setting: (# of turns/clicks out from all the way in; split into high speed and low speed if the fork has it)
SPV Air volume:
Main Body Volume:

and so on, depending on what suspension you are running. The SPV stuff wont apply for you because the romic isn't based on that platform. But basically record EVERY small adjustment you make each time you ride it. Only make one adjustment at a time. If the fork feels like it is packing down, only adjust the rebound 1-2 clicks. Try that, record the results then fine tune if needed. If you find a setting that works for one riding area make note of it. That setting may not work somewhere else. This technique helps out a lot when you ride/race in different terrain settings, you always know what works and have one less thing to worry about.
 
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