rock gardens

XC-rider93

i have 100mm forks and when i ride rock gardens/rocky tracks, should have i have my reboud adjust on high rebound or low rebound. ?

thanks

landranger

Hi,
I'm no expert but it should be high rebound.
The reason being, as you go over rocks you don't want the rebound coming up slow, this'll cause the forks to eventually bottom out as they're not given enough time to come back up - if you see what I mean :?

liam333

Not to high as you will get bucked about quite a lot

ride_whenever

Generally you shouldn't need to change the rebound speed, ideally you want it fast enough for it to track the ground, but not so fast that it hits you.

Or get your forks pushed so you have variable rebound...

dav1

adjust it till it feels right, you want it slow enough to prevent pogoing but fast enough to stop it packing down.

an educated guess followed by trial and error fine tuning is the way forward really.

clarkson

pushed? is that tf tuned tuning??

gtr mart

I too have 100 mm forks (on a hard tail) and have done quite a few very aggressive rock gardens. Some that go on for a long long time. I personally dont think you should be adjusting rebound for particular sections. Its either right or wrong. If you set it right then I cant see that it should be bottoming out or chucking you off.

As a side note, if you did set it high then you would be hanging on for dear life which in turn would negate the benefit of the suspension. This would also be seriously energy sapping which on a a longer run really isnt what you want

Of couse this is just in my own experience

skyliner

When you set it up, you're only seeing how it reacts in the top 20% of it's travel with the given spring rate. As you compress the spring it gets firmer, but your rebound setting doesn't change so it's naturally faster deeper in the stroke.
Custom tuning can enhance the speed sesitivity of your fork, but you already have a small degree of it built in.
Bouncing the fork in the carpark bears no resemblance to use on the trail.

grantway

I would say to not put up to high has you dont want to start poggoing as
you start going faster down and you dont want to set to low that when you
go over the rough stuff that the fork does not rebound quick enough
and does not get you over the rocks.

Best way to set them is set the rebound in the middle and then keep riding
down the path and adjust the fork until you get the responce you like the feel of.