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I've recently started reusing a 2012 Fox 34 RLC fork after rolling around on a Pike for the year or so - and I'd forgotten that the Fox had adjustable low speed compression damping (if only I knew how to use it;)) With the Pike, I put a couple of bottomless tokens in from new, and have never felt the need to fiddle with with the compression damping - even on proper steep & slow technical descents. However, with the Fox I noticed it needs quite a bit of LSC dialled in to give it some support on the same descents.
My question is, in people's experience, does having LSC turned up have a detrimental effect on small bump sensitivity and chattery surfaces? (I've done some test riding with different settings, but am undecided)
Reason I ask is that I'm off to the Alps soon, and the last time I was at the location, I was using my Fox RLC. I was chatting to an MTB magazine ed who tests loads of kit and he was on about how LSC can make Fox forks feel harsh on mixed terrain - now, I thought the LSC was independent of the normal FIT damper thingie(?). TBH, I'm normally concentrating on where I'm going to really notice subtleties in fork damping - but what he said did get me wondering if I'd better switching back to the Pike for the Alps trip.