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1. funkynick - Member

   I've just had a watch of the video in the BOS interview where Nico is riding the Deville fork.

   From the point where he is compressing the forks almost all the way when they are stood around at the beginning to how far he seems to be into the travel for the rest of it, it seems he has his forks set far softer than I would, not that I have a BOS fork mind.

   So, I'm just wondering is it that I have mine set up far too hard? However when I am sat of the bike I get about the right amount of sag.

   Or is this a case of as it's an advert for BOS, the forks are set up like that to make them look very supple and active...

   Posted 1 year ago #
2. retro83 - Member

   just personal taste. It's strange on the vid, they don't actually look that active to me once he's riding.

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. jedi - Member

   i set my forks and rear very progressive

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. funkynick - Member

   It's just that they seemed far softer than I'd think of running them, and he had almost full travel in places where I thought he wouldn't... and seeing as he does know how to ride a bike, I was thinking that maybe he knew better...

   Jedi.. by progressive you mean that they move easily and you use a lot of travel all the time?

   Posted 1 year ago #
5. wwaswas - Member

   I set my forks up 'soft' - they either have lockout or lock down for the boring bits.

   Posted 1 year ago #
6. jedi - Member

   i mean that compression ramps up as the travel gets used.

   Posted 1 year ago #
7. funkynick - Member

   Aaaah right.. gotcha...

   I presume though that would be a feature of the fork itself, and not something that would be possible to do by fiddling with the adjustments/air pressures on the fork?

   Posted 1 year ago #

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