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Hey guys I just started riding again after suffering a spine injury (car accident) only a few days after I bought the bike in late 2014. Had my suspension guy setup the bike for my height 5'6 and weight about 135lbs so I am a small guy. His setups always worked awesome on my 125s and 250fs. I am Pretty happy with my forks so far which most people seem to struggle with on the yz. The issue I have is mostly with the shock. It's good through the acceleration and braking process. Whenever I go through longer bumps/sandy rollers the rear just kicks up or sideways. I also find the rear kicking sideways on jumps or loosing contact to the ground whenever I come up a Little short on bigger tabletops which of course is always scary. I hope you can somehow figure what I'm trying to say. I also worked on gripping the bike with my knees alot more and running lower gears but it didn't help too much.
The tracks I usually ride at are sandyish. Not Lommel-like more like Glen Helen or maybe Spring Creek as far as I can tell from tv. Other than that I love the bike even though I'm a small guy. I've raced 15 years prior to my injury but was never too much into suspension since it always seemed to work right away after getting it set up or my dad did some adjusting and I've never been too picky on suspension when I was younger. That obviously changed...
First thing I was thinking is slow the rebound down 2-3 clicks in or so
I am not sure about the low- and highspeed compression and if adjusting helps.
I'm far of from being a fast guy just a regular weekend warrior who used to race some local and sometimes regional races years ago.
Settings I currently run:
Front
Forks: 8 mm into the clamps
Fork springs: 45 kg/mm
Compression: 12 out
Rebound:11 out
Rear
Sag: 105mm
Rear spring: 52kg/mm
Lowspeed: 12 out
Highspeed: 1,5 turns out
Rebound 14 out
Thanks for your help !
The tracks I usually ride at are sandyish. Not Lommel-like more like Glen Helen or maybe Spring Creek as far as I can tell from tv. Other than that I love the bike even though I'm a small guy. I've raced 15 years prior to my injury but was never too much into suspension since it always seemed to work right away after getting it set up or my dad did some adjusting and I've never been too picky on suspension when I was younger. That obviously changed...
First thing I was thinking is slow the rebound down 2-3 clicks in or so
I am not sure about the low- and highspeed compression and if adjusting helps.
I'm far of from being a fast guy just a regular weekend warrior who used to race some local and sometimes regional races years ago.
Settings I currently run:
Front
Forks: 8 mm into the clamps
Fork springs: 45 kg/mm
Compression: 12 out
Rebound:11 out
Rear
Sag: 105mm
Rear spring: 52kg/mm
Lowspeed: 12 out
Highspeed: 1,5 turns out
Rebound 14 out
Thanks for your help !
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oh and braking bumps are low speed compression
landing jumps and big hits are high speed comp.
After reading what Harry wrote I think it's mostly a highspeed issue and I'll adjust the lowspeed as well.
I might go in on the rebound later that day depending on how everything feels.
Braking bumps and acceleration bumps right out of a turn work fine. It's mostly the bumps in the middle of a straight that are deeper and further apart/longer.
I do have lighter springs in the forks+shock. The rear spring is an Öhlins, the rest is regular KYB.
I also checked the Racetech springrate calc. and they also advice the 52kg/mm spring which I'm running. Otherwise I probably wouldn't get the 105mm (4,133 inches) of sag.
I wouldn't consider myself as fast right now after being of the bike for two years. I only put 8.5 hours on the bike so far+I'm not pushing hard anymore. Just having fun and ride within my comfort zone.
Thank you guys for the help and I'll sure keep you updated on how it went.
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