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  • Long travel forks- how can I stop the front washing out?
  • Dirtynap
    Free Member

    Sounds more like poor riding style than bike.

    A few thing sthat will help though are:
    1. Learn to corner correctly (skills day will sort that, or do some reading of how to ride berms)
    2. Fit good tyres, super tacky preferably or triple compound if you worried about rolling resistance, on the front
    3. Run with low trye pressures, so the tyres deform more when you load them and therefore give a bigger foot print and thus more grip. Don't go so low that the tyre wobbles though, easy to do on skinny little XC rim.
    4. Don't have you rebound as low as it will go, as the fork wont rebound before you get to the next corner. You want the fork to at least try to push back at you, a little.
    5. A longer stem, sliding the saddle might help, doubt it, a Skills day or read how to take berms etc will.

    Front end washout is about the rider and trail conditions not the machinery.

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