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Hi,
After riding my G150 over the weekend at BPW and Afan I was wondering what sag any other owners are running or if you find the shock over damped? With 30% sag I never achieved full travel and found I had pains in my feet at the end of the day as there was way too much coming throught the pedals.
If I have to run more sag to get full travel, I am thinking it may be time for a revalve on the compression side, why have 150mm travel if 60mm of it has to go on sag to make the rear end active enough. It a Monarch RT3 Debonair so small bump and rebound are spot on it's just the compression that feels too slow to react to hits. I have whipped the air can off and there are no tuning bands so there is nothing I can do myself.
Any advice welcome. It could be that I have come over from a very linear Orange Five, but tbh it felt a lot better with 25% sag.
Cheers
I feel the same with my G150, I am running on about 35% sag at the moment to make it feel like it is active enough.
Just bumping this if someone has any advice. I was at 35-40% today and still only getting through 80% of the travel.
This was during numerous runs at cwmcarn, which included a few bad landing and drops etc where I think I should have used a bit more but just seems stupid if I need to run more sag.
I think I'm the opposite to both of you then.
I'm on 28% sag with 7 volume spacers in it to prevent harsh bottom out. That's with the standard light/light tune on the shock.
I'm not exactly light so wouldn't think it would take much for me to get the shock through its travel.
Might give the shock a service as didn't play about with it much when it was new so but sure if this is something that has developed since.
I was running 200psi for 30% sag at 12st 10lb, dropped this by 5psi which hardly altered sag but did make a big difference in feel. Dropping it 10psi took the sag to 35% which I feel is eating into travel too much. No volume spacers and my shock is the Med stock tune (medium frame).
Kind of got used to it now after 300 miles, it was just a case of getting used to a more progressive bike, my Five at similar sag would have blown straight through the travel and felt awful. Its definitely a faster bike all round. I also found with a real slack head angle you have to run the Pikes lower than normal also, I have these at 60psi.
How are you all getting on now with the g150 rear shock set up??