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Message: [QUOTE="terry hay, post: 698569, member: 48273"] JCV The straight rate spring brought many a praise when installed for enduro applications. Still it has many shortcomings when it comes to providing bottoming resistance for more aggressive usage. If your riding suits the straight rate thats fine. Obviously when it comes to suspension setup ultimately we may end up with some form of compromise. At the end of the day we want to have as little compromise as possible. Manufactures are bound by circumstance to provide arbitrary settings when they produce their suspension packages. They have no idea who is going to ride the bike or how. It could be an "A" grade MXer weighing 75kgs, a novice weighing 60kgs or a trail rider weighing 120kgs. They try to produce an average setting for what they believe is the average weight rider of average ability and average out the average usage for that style of bike. Obviously then the best performance we can hope for from the stock bike is in fact average. Every year as technology, materials or methods improve we simply witness a raising of the average. This is not to say the performance of your bike is not good. It simply means the potential for improvement is very real. If you are satisfied with the current bike that's great. But for those who want a little more it's nice to know it's available. Regards Terry [/QUOTE]