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Bit excited. Just picked up an M10 second hand; it's very clean and I'm just getting it set up. I know they've been out for a while now, but there seems little online guidance about how to set a decent baseline to start suspension tuning from.
It's running the standard Fox DPX2 shock, but the bloke I bought it off has put a different damping cartridge in the forks; so it has high and low speed compression tuning.
I'm about 14 stone and have set sag in the "normal" ways to give 30% on the shock (225psi) and 20% on the forks (75psi).
I used the "Kerb Bump" and "Fork Push" to set rebound: about 4 and 5 clicks off slowest respectively.
But I have no idea about compression. So I was thinking about starting with 3 clicks (out of a max of 10 clicks) out from full open on the shock and to use the recommendation from the Fox website to set the HSC on the forks at 7 clicks from full open and the LSC at 11 clicks out from full open.
I'd appreciate any comments/input on any of those settings.
Cheers
Marc
i've had to borrow a DPX2 for mine as my coil shock dumped its oil out and is away for warranty repair. i'm running the shock almost fully open, cant remember if it was 1 or 2 clicks away and 25% sag. if it was my shock i would be putting in some volume reducers and dropping the pressure a bit. coil shock feels way better.
mine has the factory 36 and fox's recommended settings where way to much compression damping for me.
best thing just ride it and see how it feels then adjust from there. my fork was really harsh at recommended settings. i also think i'm quite a bit faster on the rebound than 5 clicks but not sure how many clicks.
its all to personal anyway and depends on what your normal riding is.
Thanks bf.
The lad who sold it me said he'd put in the "biggest" reducer already (whatever that is). But 225psi seems a lot to me too.
I do need to go and play on it a bit more.
i think max for that shock is 350psi so you've plenty to play with. i don't think i'm far of your pressure and i'm about a stone lighter than you.
as its not my shock and i hope to be back on the coil very soon i haven't looked into reducers for it so don't know on that one. sounds like they may be different to the rockshock ones i've used on my previous bike.
tbh a chap on our wnr just got something similar. Uts a nice looking rallion but i darnt tell him the chain stay was cracked.
just ride it really. wide the compression off and give it a go then fully on to see what you prefer then dial it in from there.
andybrad, thanks I'll try that.
IIRC you did point out a non existent crack as soon as you saw the bike 😉
lol 🙂
sorry, couldnt resist.
im doomed if i ever get a carbon / non 26" bike