All you need to worry about at first is the fork sag, or ride height of the fork with you on the bike. What all this means is that there are no reliable air pressure charts or suggestions that I can give you based on weight alone.īut there is an easy way to find which air pressure is right for you. The condition of the fork and which end of the go/no-go tolerances it was made to will also affect what air pressure you will need because these variables affect fork friction as well. The more raked out a frame is the lower the pressure will need to be in the fork because there is less weight directly over the front wheel and more friction on the bushings that the stanchions ride on (which creates more drag). A closely related variable is the sag of the rear shock which affects head angle and the overall balance of the bike. The head angle of the bike will have a big influence on what pressure will be right for you. The place to start is with your air pressure. Tuning a fork like the Fox 32 Float RL is relatively easy because there are only two variables to adjust, these are: air pressure, and rebound. There is no reason to fork over your sanity getting your suspension adjusted. The fork is mounted to a Giant Trance if that helps.
#FOX FLOAT RP23 PRESSURE CHART HOW TO#
I just got a new Fox Float 32 RL 140 and wanted to see if you had any tips on how to set it up for a 185 lb. If you have a question for Daniel, please post it on our Facebook Wall or e-mail Daniel directly at Today’s column will review how to adjust a trail bike suspension fork. If it is infact a L velocity tune getting a firmer tune would be my first step before ditching the unit all together.Welcome to our Ask a Mechanic column where our expert mechanic Daniel Slusser answers your bike maintenance questions. Ourselves, NS Dynamics and even possibly Sola should be able to do this for you. I would suggest looking tuning before ditching it. Often the issues experienced with the DRCV is they often come coupled with a low BV pressure and light velocity tune, this means the damper really offers very little support and you rely heavily on the spring to prevent excessive travel use which often requires a high spring pressure/rate which greatly affects the sensitivity of the unit. so imagine the DRCV operating like a coil shock in the spring side of things. You need to be careful in getting confused between spring rates and damper progression, the DRCV offers a far more linear rate (at least compared to a regular RP23 with LV aircan). There are a few things that can be done to help prevent the slow air leaks that some shocks suffer from. I would like to add abit about the DRCV system, the concept is pretty good, but it doesn't seem to work as well in practice as on paper. If you are determined to go down the RP23 path I would get the biggest air can that you can and a custom tune to suit. IMO I would work with your Trek dealer in the first instance for tuning advice and maybe a changeover or maybe have the DRCV rebuilt by a suspension expert such as Tekin or NS Dynamics to sort out your issues.
#FOX FLOAT RP23 PRESSURE CHART FULL#
My concern with going to an RP23 (or any other air shock) would be that you may not get full travel as the air spring will ramp up to much towards the end of its travel. If the second stage of the DRCV did not open up you would need a falling rate deeper in the suspension travel to allow the bike to use the full suspension travel. deeper in travel the second part of the chamber gets opened up so the air spring does not ramp up so much - which allows for the slight rising rate. This is a similar leverage curve that you would expect for a coil sprung bike as opposed to air and appears to be consistent with the marketing of the DRCV and how it is supposed to work. What I have done is posted the leverage curve for a 2012 Remedy which may be of some assistance.īasically it shows that the Remedy has a slight rising rate for most of its travel and then for all intents and purposes levels out. I don't have any direct experience with a Remedy, unless looking at one in a shop counts, but given you haven't received any feedback yet here is my 2c.