How many clicks of compression?
Help me sort my front fork out.
5 clicks. There is a total of 12 on my fork.
Rebound -9
Last edited by: Brocklanders on June 19, 2020, 9:35 a.m., edited 1 time in total.
Posted by: Brocklanders
5 clicks. There is a total of 12 on my fork.
Rebound -9
I assume it only has HSC and not LSC?
Correct
Posted by: shoreboy
Posted by: Brocklanders
Did a ride with the this aft, pumped up my pressure a bit from 90 to 100 psi and have to say felt better in that it wasn't collapsing as bad, but only drawback was I noticed I'm not using all my travel. Will put a couple tokens in this weekend and see if that makes a difference.
When you say collapsing, do you mean it sinks into its travel under its own weight? The new air spring upgrade is aimed at fixing this, as it is a common design trait on the older air springs. It was designed to make the fork feel more supple on initial stroke, but some riders find it too supple (which I what I think you are saying).
I'm not 100% confident on this, but I thought it was just a design flaw of this particular generation of pike due to RockShox cheeping out/lightening up the air spring.
I think the first gen Lyric solo air had the same design, but not the same problems because it had an aluminum disk separating the positive and negative air spring. The new pikes changed this piece to plastic. The plastic binds and allows the positive air spring to add pressure to the negative air chamber under compression.
With enough pressure being added to the negative spring, the fork will eventually feel very "collapsed". Because the negative air spring has the largest effect on the initial stroke of travel, pumping up the positive chamber makes the initial stroke feel better, but now prevents you from getting full travel.
You could test if an overly-sprung negative spring is the problem by letting all of the air out of the fork and see if it sucks itself all the way down to zero travel.
If it is the problem, just follow some of Hepcat's instructions to remove the air spring. Once you have it out, re-grease it and put it back together. This will get the correct air pressure in the negative spring again and make the fork feel brand new. If you don't have any tools, it's the cost of C-clip pliers, a bit of grease, and 30W oil. It's probably not impossible to find someone in the fromme or seymour parking lot that would have all of the tools in their car to do this for you in the time it took them to drink a beer.
If I was light enough to ride the stock air spring, I would.
Yes the vid Hepcat posted makes it look pretty easy to do. Just need to gather the provisions.
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