On Monday, October 22, 2018 at 9:35:02 PM UTC+2, Emanuel Berg wrote:
lou.holtman wrote:

Should be at the faster end of the spectrum
in my limited experience.

Yes, but without bouncing up and down
a couple of times. What I do/did is ride of
a curb at high speed en feel/experience the
difference of different settings and set it
what feels the best.

Good idea.

I don't know. I think (personal opinion) that
suspension got; - too complicated, -
ridiculous expensive, - according to the user
manual ridiculous high maintenance.

It isn't complicated IMO (PSI in tire, PSI in
chamber, rebound speed; plus some extras like
volume reducers at the top [linear/progressive]
and such) - just needs a lot of fiddling until
you get it right. Which is half the reward with
modern bikes!

Settings are only valid for certain circumstances but you always have a mix of circumstances at least I do. Hence the lock out, adaptive damping, electronics, self thinking stuff etc. etc.


It isn't expensive - perhaps in terms of the
technology itself (actually I have no clue),
but not in absolute terms. Everyone who has
a job in the Western world can afford an
alu-MTB with suspension. And probably lots of
other people as well.

https://www.bike-components.de/en/Fo...l-2019-p65104/


As for the maintenance costs I don't know - but
do tell - because I only had this bike couple
of weeks and I don't have the manual. I'll grep
the web for a PDF right now, tho.

FOX recommend service every 500 km, which is messy and quite complicated. Nobody does it of coarse so half of the high end forks don't work properly/optimal anymore.


so I gave up on suspension and mountain bikes
and use a cross bike with a rigid fork for
off road riding. Much more fun anyway.

I never wanted suspension in the first place
but now that I have it obviously I'd like to
know what's going on


Look around on youtube.

Lou