[Closed] Rockshox Revelation Set-up guide

Not sure of any but if anyone has some for dual air set up that would be great

This kept cropping up for the 2010 forks, what exactly do you want to know?

I remove all negative air. Set sag to approx 20% of travel. Reinflate negative air to same psi as sag/ positive air. I ride, I'm happy. I generally leave it this way for weeks/ months on end. Life is too short for too much faffing.

RS values as printed on fork legs may not be applicable to you as an individual.

Other factors that may affect pressures are ambient temperature, altitude? and style of riding/ preferance of setup. I like it relatively firm because I don't like riding uphill so I want to convert every possible Joule into height gained rather than bounce in the fork. Tbe downside of this strategy is that my ride is stiffer on the downhills.

As a rule, 90psi in the +ve chamber will equate to the medium coil spring on solo air forks and 90+ive 60-ive will give the same result for dual air forks.
Keep the 66% - 33% ratio while getting about 30% sag in the "attack position", and you won't go far wrong.
If you like a more supple initial phase, match the pressure in the +ive with the -ve i.e.90+ive and 90 -ive.

If you find they dive too much, contact me on 07812690420 and I'll arrange for you send them in and I'll build a high speed compression stack into the fork and improve the performance.

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I'm there Ambrose. You can count on it this time, I've not ridden for 6 weeks. I'll scope out the route on Monday. I'll mail and txt to confirm then, (route will finish at Wern Fawr for some top Buddy Holly based (Bryncelin Micro Brewery ales)).

Good man! Can you manage to sort the route for next Weds PM do you think? BTW- do you FB?

If you find they dive too much, contact me on 07812690420 and I'll arrange for you send them in and I'll build a high speed compression stack into the fork and improve the performance.

Do you mean dropping the BlackBox damper in, or something else?

As above, remove air from the negative chamber, use the positive air to set between 25% and 33% sag in attack (!) position.

Set negative air pressure at the same as the positve.

refer to my setup guide for rebound and compression setup.

http://locotuning.co.uk/tech-info.html

Dive on the brakes is low speed compression too. 😉

Any issues feel free to drop me mail 😀

There aren`t any it seems apart from teh sticker on the forks themselves; have had same issue on finding info but this may help

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=591938

At 180lb kitted out I`m using 100psi RLT Ti 120/150 dual position fork, and still to fiddle with other knobs yet. I got to this value by 20% sag; tried also 90 psi which was really plush at 25% sag, but found fork started to pack down to half travel on sustained rocky downhill. Still investigating best setup though

Retro 83,

There's a shim stack inside the bottom of the blackbox MoCo fitted to these forks which is easily adjusted with the addition/rearrangement of a few shims.
You could also re-machine the rebound piston assembly to be a compression and rebound arrangement. 🙂

LoCo - Member
Retro 83,

There's a shim stack inside the bottom of the blackbox MoCo fitted to these forks which is easily adjusted with the addition/rearrangement of a few shims.

Oh is that what he meant? I'm aware of the BB damper having a shim stack, but he said about 'dropping one in' - i took this to mean adding one to a fork which didn't have it previously.

LoCo - Member
You could also re-machine the rebound piston assembly to be a compression and rebound arrangement

Very interesting! I was told on the MTBR forums that you can't repurpose the existing rebound piston to be compression and rebound, without getting problems with cavitation in the oil ... otherwise you could swap out the compression check valve on the rebound pushrod for a compression shim stack (although Push do preload the comp checkvalve spring I think!)

The RLT Ti is a blackbox unit, as regards the rebound piston assm. you could do it how well it would work is open to discussion. Yet another thing that I'll be 'playing with' over the winter.

Cheers for the replies guys, though some of it all seems very complicated at the moment. Will eventually get my head around it all.....hopefully.

With the RLT ti can the high and low speed compression be adjusted? As far as I was aware you can only just the floodgate for when it is locked out (using the remote which is either "on" or "off" as I does not have the adjust remote)

I too struggle to understand this technology and Im not altogether convinced that with my riding skills I could even tell the difference on the smaller points of fine tuning; as long as the fork feels smooth on small rough hits (eg stoney forest tracks) and works well on rockier stuff Ill be happy. But isn`t that what black box is meant to achieve once user settings are finalised??

This link covers Mocos:

http://www.bikerumor.com/2010/08/20/tech-article-how-rockshox-motion-control-works/

Thanks Abdul.

Anyway, as a 'power tech XC' rider I put heavier wt oil in my damper cartridge, no bobbing, no compression damping needed, full travel, less diving under braking.

LoCo thanks for that link, much more understandable now, I recognise teh compression tube / adjustabe gate now from when I converted a Reba Poploc to a crown lock and had to remove the red tube to get out the poploc return spring.