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Fork Setup
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Fork Setup Information
Read this first for a general un-
derstanding of fork set-up or skip
straight to the air pressure charts
(p. 23) if you just want to go ride.
Positive Pressure
This is the main air spring that sup-
ports your weight. Adjust the air
pressure so that you come close to
using all the travel on a typical ride.
Usually you can mimic your maxi-
mum impacts by grabbing the front
brake and pushing down HARD on
the bars. If you are getting 80–90%
of the fork’s travel doing this, your
positive air spring is in the right
range. Actual riding will often push
the fork a little further than this test.
Negative Pressure
On forks where you can adjust the
negative air spring, start with a pres-
sure close to what you ended up with
on the positive air spring and adjust
from there to your preference. More
negative spring pressure rides a bit
lower and has a smoother transition
into the first part of the travel. Less
negative spring pressure rides higher
and a bit firmer.
Low Speed Compression Damping
Low speed compression damping is
used to reduced unwanted move-
ment and over travel due to low
speed changes like out of the sad-
dle pedaling and subtle variations
in the trail that can cause wallow-
ing etc. Adjust to your preference.
Lockout
As the name implies this turns the
fork rigid (or close to it) for out of
the saddle efforts or riding on the
road. Most forks have a “blowoff”
so that the fork will move if a large
enough impact is felt. The thresh-
old or “blowoff” when the lockout
lets the fork start to move is often
adjustable. It’s called
Gate
in Rock
Shox parlance and
Blowoff Thresh-
old
in Fox’s language. Usually the
goal is to have the lockout at the
minimum setting needed to stop
the fork movement while pedaling
out of the saddle, but allowing it
to still move fairly easily when an
impact is felt.
High Speed Compression Damping
If your fork has a high speed
compression damping control,
this would usually be used to slow
things down during big hits to avoid
bottoming. It would usually be set
at the lowest level needed to avoid
bottoming out.
Rebound
Adjust the rebound so that the front
end does not bounce off the ground
after a drop off or large bump. If
adjusted too slow, the fork may “pack
down” and feel sluggish. In order
to conserve momentum and remain
compliant the suspension needs to
recover fairly quickly and push off the
back side of bumps and holes. If the
rebound is adjusted too slow, rolling
energy is lost to damping and vibra-
tion. If it is adjusted too fast the bike
will bounce after bumps and drops.
Adjust to your preference.
Fork Setup
and compression damping are all
adjusted via the knobs at the top and
bottom of the right fork leg. (Note:
rebound was moved to the bottom of
the right fork leg for 2010.)
Fox Talas 36
We supply the 160/120mm travel
version of the Talas 36. It has the
same adjustability as the Float
RLC. The air pressures required are
slightly different than the Float so
we’re reprinting them on page 23.
Fork Adjustments
The travel adjustment knob is on top
of the left fork leg. By turning it, the
fork can be set to 160mm or 120mm
of travel. Rebound, lockout, blowoff
and compression damping are all
adjusted via the knobs at the top and
bottom of the right fork leg.
(Note: rebound was moved to the
bottom of the right fork leg for 2010.)
Rock Shox Revelation Team
Rock Shox refers to two air chambers,
one being positive and the other
negative. Fill the positive air chamber
by adding air to the Schrader valve on
the top of the left leg. We have found
that the spring rate guide printed on
the left fork leg suggests air pressures
that make the fork ride significantly
too stiff for our liking. The negative
chamber uses the Schrader valve on
the bottom of the left leg. Try various
air pressures in both chambers, but it is
important to keep a higher or equal air
pressure in the positive chamber than
in the negative chamber.
Damping adjustments are on the
right fork leg. The small gold knob
adjusts the “Floodgate”. Increase the
Floodgate for maximum pedaling ef-
ficiency, decrease for maximum small
bump compliance.
The larger blue knob is the high
speed compression damper. Turn this
knob to its extreme clockwise position
and it will activate the lockout. The
red knob at the bottom of the fork is
the rebound adjuster.
Fox Float RLC
Rebound damping, lockout and com-
pression damping are all adjusted
via the knobs at the top and bottom
of the right fork leg.
Lockout and blowoff controls are
the ones on top. (Note: rebound
was moved to the bottom of the
right fork leg for 2010.) The blowoff
threshold can be adjusted so that
when the fork is locked out it will not
move during out of the saddle climb-
ing, yet still soaks up the bumps.
Fox Talas 32
Fox Talas forks feature adjust-
able travel. We supply a custom
150/130mm travel version of the
Talas 32 (The standard Talas is
150/120mm.) The rest of the adjust-
ments are the same as the Float
RLC. The air pressures required are
slightly different than the Float so
we’re reprinting them (on page 23.)
The travel adjustment knob is on top
of the left fork leg. By turning it, the
fork can be set to 150 or 130mm
of travel. Rebound, lockout, blowoff
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