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Are the jumps definitely where you used most travel? Both trails have a few chunky sections where I would expect a trail bike to use a decent amount, especially if you pedalled through them.
Hard to say as I only checked at the bottom, it's a bit hard to know how much further the bottom out bumper has left to compress before you get to "no, nope, no further".
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TLDR - it it feels good then worry not
When the bottom out bumper can’t compress any further you will certainly feel the thud that is a hard bottom out. It’s unmistakable.
But the fact that you’re not getting there is a good thing, you’re not really supposed to. You should only feel a hard bottom out on big drops charging at speed etcIf your static sag is 24% then that’s a strong suggestion that you’re in the right ball park.
Are you concerned that your dynamic sag is sitting too low? Concerned that it’s too low while climbing or too low while riding in general? I think it’s normal to sit deeper in the travel while climbing seated. It helps the rear tire grip.
If you want to be riding higher in the travel then a higher rate spring will have your static sag somewhere say around 18-20% and in turn the dynamic sag will sit higher too.
But there’s lots of variable that affect the dynamic sag. Adding compression damping can help ride higher in the travel but it can end up feeling harsh.
The higher spring rate could also lead to a harshness. Sub 20% sag is pretty firm.My guess is that if you have 24% static sag and it doesn’t feel harsh and you don’t feel hard bottom outs often then your suspension is likely set up pretty well.
Not using full travel is what supposed to happen! But while riding even through fairly tame stuff it wouldn’t be surprising to see the shock use 85% of the stroke.What is it that you would like to achieve? Or what do you feel isn’t right?
More importantly, what are you going to do about the POC dungarees? Shirley you’re returning them?
TotalShanner
Sorry we didn't cross paths!
Are the jumps definitely where you used most travel? Both trails have a few chunky sections where I would expect a trail bike to use a decent amount, especially if you pedalled through them.