Anders
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I just came back from a ride at my usual training track. This is my first ride with the Twisted Engineering bars on dry conditions.
I rode at least as fast as I did last time (with Twinwalls) and got less beat up as expected. Something I didn't expect, was that I used less travel in the forks. I have a O-ring to indicate the max fork travel used during the day. I didn't measure exactly, but I would presume the difference is at least 40mm under the same conditions. The only difference is the bars.
This is perhaps to be expected, since some of the suspension movement will be in the bars, making the life easier on the forks (and myself).
But I would of course like to utilize all my suspension travel, so I guess a revalve is coming up in the near future.
My question then would be; what cicruit to reduce?
My KYB forks have a Gold valve kit, so I have 3 different parameters to adjust; HS shim stack, LS shim stack and a big, stiff shim that close up the big holes in the Gold Valve piston, making a progressive HS damping.
My first thought would be to reduce the stiffness of the high speed stack (or open up the piston holes) slightly, as most of the hits at this track is roots and rocks. But perhaps the rocks and roots are dampened by the low speed stack ?
I must add that I'm a slow & old racer, I would think C or perhaps a slow B in your terminology. The rocks and roots are not that big, but I hit them at (my) speed.
Any advice?
Thanks
I rode at least as fast as I did last time (with Twinwalls) and got less beat up as expected. Something I didn't expect, was that I used less travel in the forks. I have a O-ring to indicate the max fork travel used during the day. I didn't measure exactly, but I would presume the difference is at least 40mm under the same conditions. The only difference is the bars.
This is perhaps to be expected, since some of the suspension movement will be in the bars, making the life easier on the forks (and myself).
But I would of course like to utilize all my suspension travel, so I guess a revalve is coming up in the near future.
My question then would be; what cicruit to reduce?
My KYB forks have a Gold valve kit, so I have 3 different parameters to adjust; HS shim stack, LS shim stack and a big, stiff shim that close up the big holes in the Gold Valve piston, making a progressive HS damping.
My first thought would be to reduce the stiffness of the high speed stack (or open up the piston holes) slightly, as most of the hits at this track is roots and rocks. But perhaps the rocks and roots are dampened by the low speed stack ?
I must add that I'm a slow & old racer, I would think C or perhaps a slow B in your terminology. The rocks and roots are not that big, but I hit them at (my) speed.
Any advice?
Thanks
