I am absolutely mechanically illiterate, I'm too embarrassed to ask people I ride with tech questions cause feel like they think I should already know since I've been downhilling for a year now...
So I come to a non-involved party for help!
I have a '03 super t and people have explained the mechanics of it to me 1,000 times but it's not clicking. I have trouble with terms, example:
compression: is that simply what compresses during movement (landing a drop)? is it JUST the spring or spring and oil combined?
sometimes i've heard the term compression dampening (damping or dampening, damnit! i've heard both from a billion people). what is that? what is dampening by itself?
rebound: how fast or slow the shock returns to it's normal position, right? is that controlled by oil?
and lastly, how do the knobs on the tops of the stanchions relate to the adjustment of these things (i.e. when you turn to left/right what PHYSICAL changes are being made??)
thank you!!!!
So I come to a non-involved party for help!
I have a '03 super t and people have explained the mechanics of it to me 1,000 times but it's not clicking. I have trouble with terms, example:
compression: is that simply what compresses during movement (landing a drop)? is it JUST the spring or spring and oil combined?
sometimes i've heard the term compression dampening (damping or dampening, damnit! i've heard both from a billion people). what is that? what is dampening by itself?
rebound: how fast or slow the shock returns to it's normal position, right? is that controlled by oil?
and lastly, how do the knobs on the tops of the stanchions relate to the adjustment of these things (i.e. when you turn to left/right what PHYSICAL changes are being made??)
thank you!!!!