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Add 5-10cc's or add a small amount of air to your outer or the easiest test is to add compression (less clicks)
You can also play with a variety of air pressures and probably see some results. Having a balance chamber really opens the box in terms of playing with pressures to get the results you want. I run far different pressures than what my tuner calls for and they are plush and hold up well. There's no magic number, it's what works best for you.
But I'd love to hear if anyone has some feedback on the forks for off road use?
The best way to describe it is if I set it up just stiff enough to give me comfortable bottoming resistance, I lose just a tad too much of the feel and plushness in the high speed stuff.
His opinion is why I'm going to play with the stock forks and then revalve if I feel like I have too.
When forks are plush, you lose feel of the front wheel.
I dont buy your description here at all.
Let me try explaining it a different way. When the front end is nice and plush, it gives me a certain "feel" that is comfortable to me. However, at that level of plushness, I lose too much bottoming resistance. When I stiffen it up at all to regain some bottoming, I lose that plushness that I like and the comfortable "feel" is gone and replaced with an uncomfortable rigid feeling. Maybe your definition of feel is different than mine.
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In addition, running such a large variance between inner and balance, you typically see more in the range of 10psi or so variation. Running so much in your balance chamber must really be pulling the forks down for you to get the plushness you desire, but again, that seems pretty high. I'm just wondering what other pressure settings you've tested thus far?
I run the same pressure in both chambers now and it seems to offer a good mix of holding up and providing plushness, irrespective of clickers. I've never had any luck using outer pressure as it always introduces harshness, but will hold up in the mid and latter part of the stroke, but at the expense of plushness. Just wondering if you had any success with settings that eliminate outer pressure?
To me, "plush" means you cant really feel the small stuff at all.
Maybe supple is a better term.
The initial settings that FC gave me for my weight and ability were 174/10/215 clickers were 8/10 C/R. I tried those and it felt way too soft. Next I started walking the IC up about 3-4 psi at a time. 188 felt the best. It was the turning point between feeling better and getting worse but it was still a bit harsh so I started backing out on the compression. 12 out on comp gave me the best feel. Again, 12 was the turning point between getting better and getting worse. Any more than that and it seemed to ride too low and blow through a little. Once I settled there, I experimented all over the map to get an idea of what was out there. I have a friend with the same fork (except with a revalve) who is about the same weight and he is running 185/0/185 and loves it. I tried that and I didn't like it at all. I'd have to go out to the trailer to check my notes to see what my complaints were as I don't recall exactly but I remember it feeling very uncomfortable
Again, I want to stress that if this was as good as it could get, I wouldn't be upset. I'm just doing what dirt bikers do. We can't leave well enough alone hahaha. I feel like I can open up the window where plush and stiff overlap a little bit more.
EDIT: It's also interesting that they went up in oil level from 345 to 360 (I'm pretty sure 345 was stock).
has anyone done something like that ?
190lb rider (without gear)
Damper side 350cc oil
Air side in 100cc / Out 320cc / Tac 10cc
Inner 180psi / Outer 10psi / Bal 190psi
Night and day difference after the rebuild! So much better than stock.
Do you even lift bro?
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