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Originally Posted by gajjii
err....no what is it?
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A bit of google-fu will give you a fuller explanation, but it is essentially where over rebound damping means that the forks will ‘ratchet’ down as they cannot return quick enough for the next bump.
Admittedly this is normally a worry when you have separate compression and rebound damping (little compression damping lots of rebound), but depending on the series of bumps you could get this with using too heavy an oil weight/damping.
You can also get the forks to hydraulic lock if you just up the oil viscosity …
this is your bigger risk in this stuation!!
Basically the oil/damping should match the spring, to stop it from .. well acting like a spring (a spring tends to go boing … boing … boing , you just want it to go boing!
) … not used to make the suspension ‘stiffer’.
Assuming Mr suzuki matched the stock 10w oil damping properties to his stock ~7 springs properly, then the only time one should be changing his oil weight from that is if you up your spring weight … or large changes in ambient temp ...