Guys well put. I often advise riders to add compression when they have suttle rebound issues, however thats not an option most of the time for offroad riders unless they are doing deep whoops.
It becomes very important to think about whether your dealing with reaction of the problem, or the problem, many times people confuse the two. As for comunicationg with a tuner, a good tuner never ask you what the problem is and never makes adjustments in that manner. A good tuner ask what the bike is doing and where, and then they reconstruct the forces acting on the suspension and build the case backwards, it makes things way easier, when it becomes dificult is when a rider only, complaines, or tryes to do our job for us, and that often results in improper diagnosis. I can think of a few recent examples, and generaly if I can't fix a rider in two tries at bat, I don't go to the palte for a third, its a waste of time.
Eric,
Please if you have any issues drop me a line brother, I'll will do my best to get you waht you need.
As for the rebound topics, rebound is a intresting topic, in generall it has a somewhat self correcting tendency and as a spring traps more energy and as a result generates more restiastance from the spring. The real trick is seting things up lose enough for good traction yet slow enough for control.
Its allso intresting that performance is clearly improved with settings that riders deem fast, yet allmost allways that fact is ignored. It seems making the rider more comfortable makes the results better no matter what performance should dictate.
Ok, I still have more to say, but my brain is sore, I'm going to give this till to tonight maybe I will be able to rein in my scatred thoughts on this topic. We need to talk about the effects of single and dual rebound, preloaded rebound, and bleed.. Those are some very important by lines to this whole topic.
Br,
Jer