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25-01-2009, 11:30pm
When you'll find the right preload most of the times you'll be using the same rebound on both front and read.
You can try and push the front and rear down with hands to see how fast the rebound works.We do not want a slow rate or a too fast.Try the extreme oposites of settings to see the differance in rebound.
It should be able to recover fast from a bump but not that fast after you let go the brakes on turning in to a corner.
Lets put it all together!!
You are on a race track on the big straight of the track.You want your rear shock to be hard enough so it doesnt dive too far on fast/hard acceleration.If it is soft it will make your rear end of the bike lower than it should be and the front lighter,the head might shake.
When you roll of the gas and start to brake for the corner the forks will dive.If it is a fast corner you have infront you want a medium setting on compression so that the bike will keep its "stable" geometry thru the corner.
If it is a slow turn you need a softer setting so the bike will dive even more to change direction rapidly.
Once letting the brakes go you want you rebound to be that slow so it will keep for a longer period of time(milliseconds) the forks down than rather expanding fast.And thats why we want the faster geometry we have during braking to aplly when we want to turn in with brakes or no brakes.
You can try and push the front and rear down with hands to see how fast the rebound works.We do not want a slow rate or a too fast.Try the extreme oposites of settings to see the differance in rebound.
It should be able to recover fast from a bump but not that fast after you let go the brakes on turning in to a corner.
Lets put it all together!!
You are on a race track on the big straight of the track.You want your rear shock to be hard enough so it doesnt dive too far on fast/hard acceleration.If it is soft it will make your rear end of the bike lower than it should be and the front lighter,the head might shake.
When you roll of the gas and start to brake for the corner the forks will dive.If it is a fast corner you have infront you want a medium setting on compression so that the bike will keep its "stable" geometry thru the corner.
If it is a slow turn you need a softer setting so the bike will dive even more to change direction rapidly.
Once letting the brakes go you want you rebound to be that slow so it will keep for a longer period of time(milliseconds) the forks down than rather expanding fast.And thats why we want the faster geometry we have during braking to aplly when we want to turn in with brakes or no brakes.