long-travel soft springs, very firm dampers?

long-travel soft springs, very firm dampers?

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carl_w

9,191 posts

259 months

Thursday 17th December 2015
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Dan Friel said:
Shame we don't have Bridgestone RE003s in Europe, having read the reviews, they would be a decent 1a tyre.
We tried RE002s and they weren't that good in 15". Not sure about RE003.

itdontgo

50 posts

133 months

Thursday 14th January 2016
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Stiff dampers won't stop it rolling although they will slow it rolling. If you leave the standard springs on and stiffen the dampers it will very quickly become overdamped and will skip about over kerbs and bumps.

You can only really fit thicker roll bars to reduce roll but you'll need to make them adjustable as the chance of you getting the rate right at both ends for the balance you want isn't that likely. And if you can't change your f/r ride heights the roll bars will be the only way you can adjust the handling.

Surely everyone is in the same boat though? I'd just leave it alone wink