[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by timwilky

Nobody loves a pedant so here I shoot myself in the foot.

what do you mean by "stiffen the forks"?

Stiffness of a spring as I remember from mechanical engineering lectures 35+ years ago. (**** doesn't time fly!) is a constant. where K=F/x. F being the applied force and x the resulting displacement. So in short it is impossible to stiffen the spring assuming they are linear.

Applying preload simply increases the amount of initial force that is required to start to compress the forks. Changing the oil or on better forks adjusting the damping, changes the rate at which the compression/rebound takes place. It does not make them any "stiffer"

So if you wish to make the forks stiffer, change the spring.

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