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I have a Domain 318 that I bought a few weeks ago. It feels nice but I can't get it feeling as good as my air Pike re small bump sensitivity due to the standard spring being a bit hard for me, it doesn't quite sag enough. However I've bottomed out the forks on a couple of harder landings so not sure about going to a lighter spring. Is there anything I can do to get it better for my current weight? I thought about using the soft spring and putting some compression on (currently all the way off), would that help at all? Any other suggestions would be welcome 🙂 When I've finally shifted the rest of the weight I need to then the soft will probably be fine but for now I think it would be too light.
Softer spring with some high speed compression wound on, I'd reckon.
I suppose it's worth a go if it's easy to quickly change it..
Does the blue compression knob thing (top of right leg) give enough adjustment to counter for being slightly too heavy for the spring then?
Softer spring plus more compression will not really help IMO - softer spring = more travel, more compression = less compliance - it might cancel out but I doubt it
Check loco tuning guide to set up
I have no experience of these particular forks but can't you run the lighter spring and increase the oil level? - even if they're not "air" forks as such there's still air in there that gets compressed as they move through their stroke, so by increasing the oil level it gets compressed more and so ramps up the spring rate, reducing the tendency to blow through the travel.
Certainly you do this with coil sprung Marzocchis anyway, so I know I'm not talking complete bollocks.