understanding the totem

biggs83

Hi guys

I'm new to the forum and have recently gotten back into mountain biking after many years off.

I have rebuilt my bike and when the front wheel arrives it will be complete

I have bought a set of RockShox Totem RC2DH Dual Position Air Forks (2012) and i've not seen that many pictures and videos on how they really work (the manuals seem a little rubbish)

Are they meant to have the flow-gate popup button on the top crown (because I cant seen to get mine to work)

And there is also a small Alan key in the bottom of one of the legs that you pull out but I cant seem to find where that goes either

If someone could give me some tips on these forks it would be much appreciated

cooldad

Have you read the manual?

biggs83

yes and one of the manuals had about 3 pages in

Ill do some more searching on the net

warpcow

Start here(?):

http://www.sram.com/service/rockshox/110

ilovedirt

No it doesn't have the pop-up floodgate knob, the RC2DH models have no floodgate on either the lyrik or the totem.

biggs83

Ok cheers

I was looking around on youtube and must of seen another model or something, front wheel turned up today so i can test them out then

ilovedirt

The normal RC2 model does, however the DH model doesn't as supposedly it makes the fork less smooth through the travel as even when off, it still damps the stroke a little. It's more for climbing etc, so if your riding is more gravity based, that's the one to go for as it keeps the fork more active. Hope that explains it a little Would be easy enough to confuse the two.