Hi, I need some help from you guys to get in the final ball park with this bike.
Did second race yesterday, a 4 hour with a good mix of terrain inc. woods tight and more open grassland, whoops, hill climbs, mud, roots.
Just to update, i am 98-100 kg. with race gear,have gone for .46 springs in front and 80/250 rear, sags set to 35/112 (full tank). Had a complete revalve of shock and forks.
Settings all at standard for race.
The good things are, the revalve makes for a plusher ride, absorbs all the trash below nicely with no more harshness in the mid stroke of forks. The flickability, weaving thro slalom type stuff and quick change of direction are also superb.
Problems i want to resolve are the front steering is razor sharp, too quick and oversteering in the tighter stuff and when hitting 180 dgree turns, need to calm it down.
The back end is skittish, does a little dance when at speed on open stuff, predictable but a bit unnerving , i know it can be a lot more stable than this. The back also kicks a bit over whoops where sharp lips and crests are.
As far as the front forks, iwent to 24 clicks out on the comp and it still shows over 50mm of available travel at the end of the race.
My thoughts for the front are to change geometry by dropping fork tubes abot 4/5 mm so they are near to flush with top clamps ?
Do i need preload with the heavier springs? maybe set these to zero, soften a cick or two more on comp as long im not bottoming out. Not sure which way to go with rebound ?
My thoughts for the back are to drop the preload a 1mm and soften sags back to 38-40/115-120 as it felt better there to me. couple more clicks out on comp and increase rebound a two clicks ?
I know to do all that in one shot would just confuse the issue, thats why i need help for where to start and what order to go in.
Maybe you have already done some of the above and found it works well or maybe made it worse.
Any info would be appreciated to get this baby tuned in.
Cheers,
Nick
Did second race yesterday, a 4 hour with a good mix of terrain inc. woods tight and more open grassland, whoops, hill climbs, mud, roots.
Just to update, i am 98-100 kg. with race gear,have gone for .46 springs in front and 80/250 rear, sags set to 35/112 (full tank). Had a complete revalve of shock and forks.
Settings all at standard for race.
The good things are, the revalve makes for a plusher ride, absorbs all the trash below nicely with no more harshness in the mid stroke of forks. The flickability, weaving thro slalom type stuff and quick change of direction are also superb.
Problems i want to resolve are the front steering is razor sharp, too quick and oversteering in the tighter stuff and when hitting 180 dgree turns, need to calm it down.
The back end is skittish, does a little dance when at speed on open stuff, predictable but a bit unnerving , i know it can be a lot more stable than this. The back also kicks a bit over whoops where sharp lips and crests are.
As far as the front forks, iwent to 24 clicks out on the comp and it still shows over 50mm of available travel at the end of the race.
My thoughts for the front are to change geometry by dropping fork tubes abot 4/5 mm so they are near to flush with top clamps ?
Do i need preload with the heavier springs? maybe set these to zero, soften a cick or two more on comp as long im not bottoming out. Not sure which way to go with rebound ?
My thoughts for the back are to drop the preload a 1mm and soften sags back to 38-40/115-120 as it felt better there to me. couple more clicks out on comp and increase rebound a two clicks ?
I know to do all that in one shot would just confuse the issue, thats why i need help for where to start and what order to go in.
Maybe you have already done some of the above and found it works well or maybe made it worse.
Any info would be appreciated to get this baby tuned in.
Cheers,
Nick
