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Canadian Daves JustKDX
My review of XR 400 springs
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[QUOTE="canyncarvr, post: 828016, member: 16552"] There are procedures written up a number of places for clicker settings. Try google with a few appropriate key words. I'm at home right now and dial up is too slow to give you any examples. I have this bookmarked: [url]http://www.mx-tech.com/tuning.asp[/url] Don't know if it's still there or not......check it out. Basically you want things as soft as you can get them and not bottom out the forks. This is assuming the spring rate is correct for starters. Setting the clickers on the oem springs to suit a rider of your size isn't going to accomplish a whole lot because the oem springs are so out of whack to start with. That said for example..It goes for both ends, forks and shock. Things that let you know your fork clickers are too 'high' or set to too much compression: Your front end washes out of corners often. You can't pick your track as well as you'd like...try to move out of a rut on an uphill and the front tire just skates on the edge. The fork's stiffness is not allowing the fork to soak up that impact. It fights you. On downhills when you try to steer out of much of anything, you land on your head. That's the same sort of 'wash out' idea noted above. On the shock, set the compression so it rarely if ever bottoms. On a slow bump your butt shouldn't get knocked off the seat when the rear end goes up and over. On the downhill side of that bump, your suspension should keep the rear wheel in contact with the ground. It's important to notice whether the wheel is getting off the ground because the compression is too stiff, or the rebound is too slow...or too fast. Successive slow bumps should not 'pack' the rear suspension. 'Packing' is when successive bumps cause an improperly set shock to get increasingly shorter. Hit a bump..compress 4", rebound 3.5", hit another bump for another 4" compression, rebound 3.5"...you see what's going to happen? Pretty soon you won't have any shock action at all. You will be surprised at what a couple of clicks, even ONE click on a serviced shock can accomplish. .....get those bleeders........;) [/QUOTE]
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