My latest bike has a pair of Fox Float 32's with FIT damping. Not used FIT damped forks before, so have been experimenting with air pressure. To get a good balance of travel and sag, I'm now running them at about 40% lower air pressure than open bath damped forks.
Anyone else found that FIT damped forks tend to run at lower pressure than non-FIT Fox forks?
Surely the damping is in one leg and the air in the other and therefore independent of each other?
Yep, that's the case - which is why I was surprised at the pressure difference, unless of course, Fox changed the volume/design of air chamber on the FIT forks (can't see 'em going to the extra cost of that unless absolutely neccassary..hmm)
I still cant see how damping would affect sag. Are the FIT forks the same travel as the older ones you had?
Did they not increase the air volume in one of the recent model years? I remember that people used to cut the pushrods down to achieve the same thing.
I still cant see how damping would affect sag. Are the FIT forks the same travel as the older ones you had?Doh, I missed the bl**din' obvious there - the previous ones were 120mm travel, and these are 140's. FWIW, the previous were 'F-series' RL's with open bath, and the current ones are Float RL's.
Did they not increase the air volume in one of the recent model years? I remember that people used to cut the pushrods down to achieve the same thing.Aye, this does ring a bell. FWIR, I think I read somewhere that the idea was that lower pressures would result in less stiction....or something like(?)
My FIT forks feel bit overdamped especially in compression so it would be possible to run them with slighty less pressure than the old ones if they were similar forks otherwise (air volume etc).
Can't wait to get mine serviced next week...
Excuse my ignorance, but by overdamped in compression, do you mean that the fork compresses too slowly, or that it doesn't react to smaller faster bumps?....or both?
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