Fork and shock rebound

Grisley Paul

Guys,

Just a quickie, if you are running higher pressures in your fork and shock do you run rebound on the fast or slow side to accompany it ?

cooldad

The two are not related. Set the sag with the pressure, then the rebound as you want it.

Grisley Paul

cooldad wrote:

The two are not related. Set the sag with the pressure, then the rebound as you want it.

Ok, I always thought you set the rebound in relation to the sag/ air pressure ?

The Northern Monkey

nope.

Set the sag with the air.

Then set the rebound.

Best way to see what rebound does is to turn it to the extremes, compress the suspension, then watch what happens when it returns - it will be very slow or very fast.

If you set it too fast, you'll pogo off the bike.
If you set it too slow, you'll bog down in the suspension and it won't return over repeated hits.

Time to start tweeking!

Grisley Paul

The Northern Monkey wrote:

nope.

Set the sag with the air.

Then set the rebound.

Best way to see what rebound does is to turn it to the extremes, compress the suspension, then watch what happens when it returns - it will be very slow or very fast.

If you set it too fast, you'll pogo off the bike.
If you set it too slow, you'll bog down in the suspension and it won't return over repeated hits.

Time to start tweeking!

Lovely, thanks for that, spot on, just the kind of explanation I was looking for

stubs

Sag is controlled by the Air pressure. Rebound is controlled by the Oil inside the fork. Dont try and adjust both at the same time or you will get confused.

I find the best way to set up a new to me fork is to put the Rebound in the midle setting you will have to turn it all the way to fast or slow then count the clicks all the way to the opposite and then put it say 8 of 16 clicks. Then set the sag to 20% with your shock pump go for a quick ride and check it again. Once you have the sag set then you can play with the rebound but only adjust it one click at a time and make a note of which way you moved it and how many clicks its easy to forget.

dirkpitt74

Hi guys - quick question about sag.
am I right in saying I need to inflate the fork so it has zero travel, pop a cable tie around and then completely deflate. Re-inflate and then measure the total travel distance and then bleed off until I have about 20-25% sag with me sat on the bike?

benpinnick

Yes, but without the deflation and reinflation. Just whack a zippie on, push it to the bottom and sit on the bike. I would say go for 25-30% personally.

dirkpitt74

Thanks Ben.

The Rookie

Grisley Paul wrote:

Guys,

Just a quickie, if you are running higher pressures in your fork and shock do you run rebound on the fast or slow side to accompany it ?

Despite the other comments, yes, the damper is there to control the spring (stop it pogoing) primarily , as such if the spring is stiffer then the damper needs to be set 'stiffer' to cope, it's not a direct correlation and the damper performs other functions as well (such as affecting weight transfer dynamically) though.