some basic suspension questions

[georgieboy]

Goodday everybody,
after reading a lot of old posts, regarding pistons, stacks and oil flow cq pressures i am still left with some minor questions. Maybe you can help me with some answers.
For example, is it true that even the lowest flow pistons don't obstruct the oil flow?

 

[marcusgunby]

good question-i wish i knew the answer, i suspect they dont ,as one road bike had ports as smaller than 1mm, the tech installed some gold valves and the rt stacks and the bike felt no different.

 

[georgieboy]

I can imagine that this won't do for the midvalve/rebound piston in the fork legs, does it?

 

[marcusgunby]

I would want larger midvalve ports.

 

[georgieboy]

So, is it safe to say that we need high flow midvalve/rebound pistons and low flow base/comp pistons to get the best tuning situation? And is there already a forks manufacturer that uses this configuration as standard?

 

[marcusgunby]

I would guess so, i use std pistons as i cant justify the cost of the replacements in performance increase.

 

[georgieboy]

Nice statement, Marcus, and thnks for giving me some answers.