Dammit’s adventures in mountain biking

Sadly I didn’t bring a mallet with me, I’ll improvise with what I can find tomorrow (huge wheel of cheese etc).

Cuckoo clock

Cycliste would approve. She tends to use footwear as a hammer or mallet substitute. Sandals for delicate work, and then progressing through shoes and walking boots up to ski boots when you really need to shift something. Apparently a walking boot is the tool of choice for fitting Shimano Hollowtech cranks.

Cycliste says a moto boot is excessive for that usage. A stout shoe would be the tool of choice, apparently.

Being Bavarian, not Swiss?

Toblerone if you prefer

feels like I’ve got four

Yeah I found my self in this situation too. I only have 4 clicks but had read it should be 5.
But my personal experience is that it feels best run fully open if doing up lift assisted riding.
I run 1 click on more normal riding.
Any more than 2 click feels too harsh for me.

Its ofcourse all pretty subjective, but when I first got the forks I spent a day at Innerleithen setting them up, fiddling with different settings. After one particular run I thought the forks had broken, then I realised it was because I'd done the run with it set to a full 4 clicks closed by accident...

Play about with them set at both extremes and youll see what I mean

Open for descending, a bit for pedaling, all on for pedaling out of the saddle if you must, but my bike doesn't bob much even pedaling so I don't normally fart about with compression. I'm more about rebound.

Only really suitable for delicate work. Even nougat isn't up to heavy workloads.

Try telling that to Shawn Mendes

Fully open is all the way anti-clockwise, just to check?

Yeah anti-clockwise

Hired e-bikes today, hill climbing is still very funny, not so great at anything else though.

Pissing down with rain here this morning, Charlie Chaplin museum or the Saint Bernard museum?

https://youtu.be/sQaiIcmPVjk

Can't you go out and do stuff in the rain?

I can, but it’s really fucking steep, and when it rains it’s very slippery.

I’m here for two weeks, happy to miss a morning whilst it dries out.

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Invisiframe looks like its working well there ^

Down the red, chairlift back up, probably 20 minutes elapsed:

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30% sag, 75psi; two red runs and I have used this much travel:

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Taken a spacer out, ~27% sag, 76.5 psi. Who knows?

I'd leave the psi as is at 75 and take a spacer out. How many spacers where in to begin with?
For what its worth I run just one spacer.

I’ve got one spacer now. Lot of stiction to be overcome with this fork!

worth putting the fork serial number in here https://trailhead.rockshox.com/en/
I found it to give a pretty good starting point. I run 5psi more than what the above app suggests and and slow the rebound a couple more clicks