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Bought a new bike and these forks came on the bike. Set sag at roughly 20% sag. After a couple of rides I feel like I am plowing through pretty much all the travel and find I'm kinder nose diving into berms. The forks came with 3 token but unsure wether token are required or more compression added. Is there any guides anywhere for setting up the forks as I'm struggling to find anything cheers
Anyone?????
1) Check sag again
2) If sag is okay than add 1x token
3) Add some LSC
4) If it still feels divey, add another token
HTH
Carlos
There is a Rockshox page on the net, which illustrates the number of factory tokens their various forks come with as standard and what is the maximum number you can add. I'm guessing two as standard. Really easy to add them, which going on my RC Yari will lead to more mid travel support and about 5-10 psi less for one token.
Thanks guys. Looking on the sram site my forks come with 1 token as standard. Atm I am running compression almost full and I have set sag at 20% but find I'm going through 2/3 of the travel just on normal trails. If I do any hard descents I will be bottoming the forks out
I'm 74kg riding weight and run mine as follows
3 tokens - 68 psi
Compression open
Rebound 7 clicks
25% - 30% Sag
What position are you in when you look at sag? It's quite possible that you've got that wrong.
Also are you turning off all the compression before you look at sag?
For me, sag is a bit of a pointless metric on forks since it depends almost entirely on how far forward/back you're leaning when you measure it. The Superficial technique is to put my whole weight through the forks and see how much I can squish 'em. ~ 60% is probably about right.
You don't mention whether the small bump sensitivity* is good. If it's good / extra-plush then maybe you're just running too little air full stop.
If your forks are running soft through the whole travel, then maybe you need more air
If they're right in the first bit of travel but blow through the travel on big [i]fast[/i]** hits then you want more tokens
If they're right in the first bit of travel but blow through the travel on [i]slow[/i] hits (berms / landings) then add more (low speed) compression.
*Caveat: Small bump sensitivity is basically impossible to gauge accurately on new forks.
**Fast as in suspension travel speed not your overall speed
Thanks for the great responses. Lucorave thanks for the info that's a great start point for me. I am slightly heavier (78kg) and only have the one standard token fitted at present from factory so adding one may help. Superficial when setting sag I get someone to to assist and set with weight in a normal riding position so fairly central. From this I have set the sag currently at 20%. Small bump sensitivity is very good maybe slightly overplush. But I am finding that riding berms techy descent I am getting through almost all of the travel which gives the feeling of nose diving through corners ect. I haven't yet done and big drops/jumps as I am slightly worried about bottoming the forks out. From this information would you recommend more token? Also settting sag turned compression all the way minus. Is it easy to fit the token on dual position lyriks?