M_V's multitude of bikes and adventures in the land of framebuilding

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M_V

I think a pre Suntour Marzocchi is going to be where it's at.

Anyone got experience with using/working on such forks?

There's a DJ2 on ebay just now, travel is right, price is very right but I've read that the rather basic damping can struggle on repeated hits.

I've also read that on the purely coil sprung models (dj2 is coil with air assist) bottoming out can be cured with increasing the amount of oil in the fork rather than changing the spring for a heavier one?

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bnose in reply to @M_V

re putting more oil in HSCV or similar coil sprung marzocchis

this is a bit late, but you can adjust the progression with the oil level, so yes more oil=less bottoming out! which gives you the chance to put slightly higher viscosity oil too to get a bit more compression damping!..

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