Dammit’s adventures in mountain biking

This is ace!

Ah yes, that artisanal suspension crafter Fox...

They usually run the tyres at least 20psi too high.

Even at BPW it’s rare that they’ll set the air sprigs to the customer’s weight.

I think they assume that if they customer knows it needs to done, the customer will do it, and if they don’t know it needs to done, the customer won’t notice anyway. Which is probably true.

How many PSI's for 83.8kg please?

.8 😂
Is that before or after lunch?

How many PSI's for 83.8kg please?

Those same sized Maxxis Ardents work well for me at 24 psi front & 29-30 psi rear. I'd start from about there.

After you've set them up tubeless.

integrated ride dynamics system

aaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!

FIRM or nothing

my method (don't do this):

• take air out until tire is fun and squishy
  
• do a lap
  
• if you didn't hit the rim, take a smidge more air out
  
• repeat till you hit the rim and need a wheel rebuild
  

if you didn't cover everyone else in sealant, take a smidge more air out

@TvH

Single ply or Dual ply tyres ?

Used to race there (BPW) when it was a Dragon downhill track.
Dual ply tyres, 20-25 up front and 25-30psi out back. i am around target weight (maybe a bit lighter then, but add on fullface, and lots of body armour :)

Single ply tyres used to blow out in the rock garden = near death
this was pre-tubless times.

Single ply tyres are a bit shit at Fort William too, although that is about 75% rock garden up there.

Dammit, with heavy dual-ply tyres

When I was last into MTB's we measured them in pounds.

Did you have a blue passport too?

1.1kg when I was racing, some around 1.5, Intense used to do a 4ply supermegaduty around 2kg :)

It's BPW get a shuttle pass :)

You’ve been racing CX and I claim my £5

Did you have a blue passport too?

This was my favourite bike, I think I was 16?

Then I had one of these:

Is the frame of the Scalpel SE 2 different to the SE 1? Looking at the geometry for both there are differences, but it's not clear whether they are caused purely by the different forks (on the L).

I’d be surprised if the frames are different.

What’s a recommended guide to setting shocks up?

Set the recommended air pressures first.

Then set the rebound and compression in the middle of whatever adjustment they have ( in your fork's case, I'd leave the compression setting on 'open' ), and make one small change at a time, whether to air pressure, or rebound. The rebound won't be too far off the middle setting, if you have the correct spring rate. You'll then be able to tweak it to whatever type of trail you're riding.

Then find either a long flight of steps, or a bumpy/rocky/rooty downhill section of trail, and keep repeating it, over and over; trying a slightly different setting or air pressure on each run.

Take notes of all this

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That works

Usefully those are the Winchester court buildings.

Is there an uplift option available?

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