Adjust Damping Compression for Mountain Bikes by Expert Village

So, most high-end parts, suspension components, have external adjustments where you, the end user, can change how the shock damps--damps things that you hit. So how it slows down the spring rate, versus what the spring rate would naturally do. That's... Read More »

Adjust Damping Rebound for Mountain Bikes by Expert Village

If we can think of compression damping as being designed to keep your wheel on the ground by letting your wheel hit an obstacle and then the damping kicks in to keep it from getting kicked away and taken off the ground, we can think of rebound damping as... Read More »

Tips for Damping Settings to Affect Mountain Biking by Expert Village

So your fancy bike has all these settings that you can fiddle with and change and it can do all sorts of things. You can set your bike up to ride amazingly, like it doesn't even take any input, telepathic, it does whatever you want it to do, or if you... Read More »

Mountain Bike Suspension Ported Dampers by Expert Village

Another type of damper which is also sort of some motocross technology that's come to bikes--this is probably 70s technology versus 90s technology--is a pumping rod, or a ported damper. So, what we've got here is--this goes in the bottom of a fork and... Read More »

Mountain Bike Damper Tips by Expert Village

Which are basically--they're basically springs. And the deformation of these springs--I'm going to take this apart--the deformation of these springs is what causes the damping. And the cool thing about these shimmed dampers, or shim stack as it's called... Read More »