As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.
Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
Thanks for your patience and support!
Modded: The same as everything else- go to a linear damping curve instead of the stock digressive curve.
From the what I've tried myself it seems that the best way to think of the damping is that the total damping is for large bumps and the low speed is for small ones. Chassis stability is in the "small bump" bucket. Trying to think about
it as 'fast' and 'slow' bumps is just confusing.
Hm. Interesting; not exactly the way I've thought about it.
For example, landing on the backside of a tabletop is definitely a large bump, and may use near the full stroke of the suspension, but it's definitely all low speed.
On the other hand, riding through a bunch of exposed roots on the trail at speed is only going to use an inch or two of stroke, but it's definitely high speed damping.
It's not the size of the bump that matters, it's the "shape."
This is all for compression damping, but rebound is a similar idea, except the velocities don't get as high, since the most force you can put in is just the spring force. For rebound, the speed of damping is a function
In any case, it seems like linear damping is working for you, and the proof is in the pudding, so...
Hey Sparked, do you have fork midvalve geometry for the compression side? I'm trying to get a handle on how my total damping (not just the base valve) looks...
....I can't figure out how to get to the midvalves without removing the factory crimped bottoming ring from the damper rod ....
Kyle, I used think like you 10 years ago, but I've gone to more what Sparked is trying to tell you over the years.
KYB, open chamber, midvalve compression.
Stack ID Float
[mm] [mm]
8 1.74
I think the float number may be off, but I do remember that there is a huge amount of float.