Hello, new bike and first full-suspension bike. This is what the suspension looked like after a day at the bike park. Is the suspension travel okay, or is something wrong because the rear suspension was more compressed than the front fork?
by Noxgxg
Hello, new bike and first full-suspension bike. This is what the suspension looked like after a day at the bike park. Is the suspension travel okay, or is something wrong because the rear suspension was more compressed than the front fork?
by Noxgxg
7 Comments
Looks ok, i dont know how hard you where riding and how it was feeling. There is a little bit of travel left, but nice to have if you miss a landing/hug to flat.. So if it feels good then it is good.
At a park i usually take off a couple of clicks on the lowspeed on the shock, this will use a little more travel.
It’s completely impossible to tell. You showed us 2 pictures while there are a milliom variables.
Btw fork and shock looks compressed by the same amount based on percentage.
The shear weight of the new generation of bikes is stupid…
Can’t really tell from a picture.
Try measuring from the dust wiper seal to the O-ring and then work out the % of travel used.
Did you pump it and set the sag?
You have weight and pressure chart on fork, for the rear shock you can visit Fox web site and find extorting you need.
Just because the rear moved more, percentage wise, than the front (which I don’t even think is the case but it doesn’t really matter) doesn’t mean something is wrong. if you case a jump hard but never bottomed out your fork the compression on both rear and front is going to be very different without there being anything wrong with the suspensions.
TBH, it looks fine. I’m assuming it’s a 170-180mm fork on that Propain so there’s plenty of travel. Did the bike feel ok? No harshness, hand or arm pain?
Chances are, if it’s “brand new” that fork will likely be overfilled with assembly grease and potentially not working at its best. A lower leg service can quickly sort that out.