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Adjusting the suspension
Purpose of suspension adjustment
Your Scorpion fs 26 is suspended on all three
wheels.This system compensates bumps on
the road to make riding more comfortable and
to reduce stress for your tricycle.
A well-adjusted suspension improves the trac-
tion of your tricycle on uneven roads.
Especially when riding in a bend this allows a
higher speed and also improves safety.
In order to achieve maximum riding comfort,
the suspension settings have to match your
weight as well as the road condition.
The goals of the adjustment are:
●
maximum use of the available suspension
travel without the suspension frequently
bottoming out
●
quick reaction of the suspension without
obvious oscillation after having passed
a bump
●
avoiding self enforcing oscillations, that means
increasing oscillations of the suspension
system due to pedaling influence, rhythmic
body movements or permanent wavy
underground
Suspension and damping
The suspension system of the rear swing arm
consists of a spring and a damper.
Often, the terms suspension and damping are
used inaccurate in everyday language.
The
spring
is the elastic element that com-
presses and expands due to the the load
changes, which e.g. occur on bumpy roads.
While expanding, the spring releases the same
energy it took to compress it.
The rear swing arm is suspended with a steel
coil spring in the standard version.The option-
al rear shock DT-S
WISS
XM180 uses air as
spring medium.
The
damper
slows down the process of com-
pression and expansion.That means the tricy-
cle does not immediately "spring" back to the
initial position or even further than that after
having passed a bump.The damper converts
spring energy into friction and finally into heat,
and thus takes away energy from the suspen-
sion system.The damper prevents the spring
from swinging uncontrolled after an initial
stimulation. In addition, the damper helps to
avoid self enforcing oscillations of the suspen-
sion caused by recurrent stimulation like ped-
aling forces within a crank revolution or the
rhythmic up and down movement of the legs.
In case you have mounted the optional suspen-
sion element DT-S
WISS
XM180, the hydraulic
damping of the rear suspension is adjustable.