Raise sag or lower forks in tripple clamps?

Casper250

Motosapien
Dec 12, 2000
579
1
I had my sag set at 100mm a while back. I had my forks serviced and didn't ride for a while. Since then I lost about 15 pounds and I rode my bike and the front end felt great. When I went to check my sag, I saw that it was around 3 inches ~75mm. I changed it back to 100mm and rode again but this time the front end felt to light and didn't seem to want to carve a turn. I set the sag back to 75 and kept riding. Now, since 75mm is a little low for a sag setting, should I change the sag back to 100mm and try to get the front end to stick by lowering the forks in the triple clamps?

By lower i mean right now there is about 5mm of fork sticking out ABOVE the top triple clamp, I say lower meaning if i make it so that 10mm is sticking out above the top triple clamp.
 

WhiPit

Member
Mar 16, 2000
236
0
The correct sag is EXTREMELY important. Don't adjust the front (in the manner you describe) to compensate for the rear. Bottom line, you need a lighter rate spring to get back to about 105mm of sag.
 
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