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Originally Posted by Ariel Red Hunter
Personally, I think the softest possible (means supports your weight) spring setting combined with very stiff damping works best off road, and even better on road. Am waiting with bated breath for your report on your experience with this unit.
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in fact you should run the damping as soft as you can that works for the terrain yer riding...
to much damping dosn't let the shock re-exstend between close bumbs...
is the same as having the spring pre-load set to high as the shock not being able
to fully exstend between bumbs is pre-loading the spring for the next bumb...
prob not to much of a issue on a hawk but it also makes it hard to hop the rear
wheel for going over logs and the like...
set the sags....
here is a suspension spring rate calc....
http://www.pontiacracing.net/js_coil_spring_rate.htm
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