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[QUOTE="Papakeith, post: 98712, member: 19688"] Thanks Marcus, I am still trying to get a grasp on the basics of suspension. 5.0-6.0 seems to be quite a large range. I am going to over simplify this for my benefit. My understanding is that the spring is chosen to support the rider weight, and the sprung weight of the bike with aprox 100mm of sag. Also thrown into the mix is the type of riding that will be done. In my case valveing will be whatever clicking can be done to the stock systems. Take a 5.0 rear spring. If I have done my math right it will take 279.4 pounds to compress the spring 1 inch. A 6.0 spring would need 335.2 pounds to compress that same inch. That is almost a 56 pound difference in just the first inch. If what I have typed above is correct(not terribly sure that it is), then after 2 inches of compression there will be over a 111 pound difference in supported weight by the springs. As I understand spring theory, the next inch of travel takes double what the first inch took. So now at two inches of spring travel I have the bike and me being supported by the spring. This doesn't even include any weight being borne by the fork springs. Am I anywhere close to how this actually works? For a non mathematical type of guy these are way to many numbers and calculations.:confused: Please feel free to correct any(or all) of this. [/QUOTE]
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