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[QUOTE="Barbarian, post: 813238, member: 26477"] For my yz250f, Yamaha recomends 150mm fork oil height. I recently installed the gold valves, and Race Tech recomended 90mm, which means about 2.5 inches less air space. I've noticed that my Race Tech forks are very plush in the first 5-6 inches of travel, but never bottom. I'm guessing that the Paul Theade theory is to run softer valving for plushness, then jack up the oil height so that the fork stiffens later in the travel and doesn't bottom. It makes allot of sense, but personally I'm not happy with the forks right now, even on "prefers stiff", they seem to dive/wallow, and feel mushy too much. I want to keep working with the gold valves for now because I'm learning allot, so would it make sense to stiifen up the valving, and then lower the oil height so my forks are not too stiff when compressed far into the stroke. I'm a little scared to put the mid-valve back in right now, I don't feel like I know enough to work with it. [/QUOTE]
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