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Originally Posted by 3banger
I have had the Progressive shock for about 4 months now and I per my usual approach; can't leave well enough alone. Here are the modifications I've made. If you notice the bottoming out bumper is almost half of the available stroke and I believe it makes the shock fell unnecessarily harsh. I trimmed mine per the include photos. The linkage rate on the RX3 is very non linear. Zongshen knows that in many markets the bike will get heavily overloaded and built a linkage rate to cope with this. The effect the additional spring rate of the rather stiff foam bottom out bumper is a pretty harsh feeling every time the suspension travel engages it. I feel the suspension has preformed well on some pretty rough trail since I made this mod. Also one of the other off road techniques I've been using is reducing the tire pressure for rides like the Alpine Loop and Imogene Pass. I've installed the guts of a 12 volt air compressor in the right side case.
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This is very cool 3banger. I wonder if that's why the progressive shock felt so stiff to me ... maybe I was hitting the bumper.
I'd like to try this too, but do you think the bumper is protecting the shock internals? Or is it really unused stroke?
Also, what did you use to cut the bumper?