Dammit’s adventures in mountain biking

Make sure you film all of this testing, for invaluable internet comments.

I'll take some curtains with me.

This is the best series of guides to suspension setup I've found so far. Makes sense to me, and worked well to set up my Mattoc. I ended up running a lower air pressure than sag alone would have indicated, and then reduced the air spring volume to bring the ride height back up to normal.

https://www.shockcraft.co.nz/technical-support/suspension-setup

Don't forget to buy a shock pump.

And carry it with you on rides.

And keep all the hoses screwed together tightly so you don't lose all the air in your headshock on the train to the start of a ride ...

That's covered under @Howard 's "I fix your biek for life" warranty, right?

Also, https://www.lfgss.com/events/4120/#comment14282020

Sounds like the schrader valve failed

I'm pretty sure there was a clause that exempted ham-fisted mechanic-ing

Totally agree. Makes people obsess and spend yonks adjusting instead of riding.
Same reason motorcycles (high end at least) is going straight into Active Electronic Damping.
As far as I see it, there's so many variables to what would allow the bike to preform at it's best, you'd have to keep stopping to readjust.
I'm not saying advancements shouldn't happen, but the X2's pissed me off the same way RS1's answered a question no one really asked.
Your regular user barely understands pressure for sag, let alone Hi/Lo compression.

Dropping 10psi from the tyres made a bigger impact on my confidence than any upgrade.

certainly felt like cross following andy up the climbs at qecp

cough

It arrives!

Although the box is for a Habit, which is a bit odd.

Paul's cycles is all dodgy stock, probably got someone's warranty return.

Well that's taken the excitement out of things.

nice parquet

Nah it’s a shop floor bike.

Or a Habit

Note - these bikes don't come with a shock pump.

Shocking

What a let down.

You must be feeling very deflated.

Hopefully you can rebound from this

Can we try and compress all these puns into one page please.