So I’m reading all kinds of helpful guides and articles on rebound and compression and I’m sort of getting it but then read something else and I’m confused again. So far I’ve just been playing with the twiddly bits on the bike and seeing what happens but with more bits to twiddle I’m finding I’m not getting the set up quite where I want it.
I find the guides use different terminology and a couple of things in particular I find confusing.
For example, I have forks with Low & High Speed Compression. The knobs are labelled with Hard in one direction and Soft in the other. A guide says to increase compression or decrease compression. Others may say ‘open’ or ‘close’. So which way is which?
And then I have another fork with just ‘lock’ on one end and ‘compression’ on the other. Go towards compression and it gets soft, but is this increasing or decreasing compression? Or to complicate it further some guides refer to increasing or decreasing compression *damping*, which is not the same, or is?
Likewise with Rebound. Guides say to ‘Reduce’ or ‘Increase’ rebound damping but but forks have ‘fast’ or ‘slow’. Does slowing increase the damping or the other way round?