I am getting back into the DH game after 8 years away. Bought a used Intense Socom and need to get the bike ready for me. I have the Boxxer WC up front. I am 220lbs. and an aggressive rider. The original owner was smaller and I need it to be tuned to my weight and style. What air pressures should I start with for 220lbs? What sag should I have? Any help would be great. -Chris
You should run what ever pressure gives you between 20 and 28% sag. I'm guessing around 130psi?
I hate to say it, but the Boxxer WC adjustments pretty much suck. The compression setting's steps are pretty big and generally go from too soft to fully locked out. I ran about 3-4 clicks in from fully open. The "Gate" adjustment is absolutely useless. I've run it fully in, fully out, and didn't notice one damn difference. So go wherever you want on that knob. Rebound is to taste, run it as fast as possible without it pushing out your front end in corners and rocketing your front end up off jumps, or just slightly faster than your rear.
Overall it's a great feeling fork, despite the crap adjustments. Once you get the psi (sag) dialed, just mess with the compression and rebound adjustments, it'll be really easy to tell what feels good and what doesn't.
Set the air pressure to what RS recommends (Mine is in the garage and I am to lazy to go and look)
At most two clicks on the blue nob
about 1-2 full revolutions on the gold nob
set rebound to personal preference.
That is about how I set mine up, but I like it set up for DH... very linear feeling.
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