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I've been riding on the road for the last decade. Tech has changed quite a bit in those years.
I have a set of Rock Shox Recon Gold TK forks with 100mm travel. I have no idea how to set them up properly. Is there any idiots guides on setting them up?
Set air pressure to give you 25% sag when kitted up in attack position. Rebound dial turned a handful of clicks from full open/fast. Don't know if they have a compression adjuster knob, but keep it open/ full anti clockwise if riding down, and full closed/clockwise if riding up. ๐
Thanks I'll give it a try ๐
Honestly as long as you can put a basically half decent/non deadly setup in it, the best thing to do is just fanny about with it. So yep get the sag reasonable, get the rebound so that it doesn't feel like it wants to fire you into space, and experiment from there. If you have a bit of trail that you know well that tests most things, that's really useful- I have a wee bit near me that has a couple of jumps, a couple of berms, a drop, a flat out rattle through some chunky pine roots and a set of steep steppy switchbacks and that's basically all I need.
The best trick is bracketing- rather than starting from "I don't like this, it's too divey" and trying to work towards perfection slowly, it's better to jump from "it's too divey" to "it's too hard"- by getting it wrong twice now you know the right setting is somewhere inbetween, rather than constantly going towards it from one direction and hoping you know when you get there.
It's hard to know when something is right, but it's usually easier to know when it's wrong so I always set up my forks to feel not-wrong more than I set them up to feel right.
I think its something to do with the rolled up condom on one of the legs ๐