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DIY revalve of TC forks?

NWRider said:
I think the stock stack probalby would work OK for MX. I remember they would take a big landing very well. But for the woods they are just harsh, at least at my slow speed. We just have a whole lot of roots and rocks. If I go fast enough they will smooth them out but I have to be flying which is hard on 6 inch wide trail. But then we also have a lot off loose baby head rocks and they tend to move before the forks will which tends to make the front end step out. There are also a lot of big root lenges in climbs and if the forks are plush they just soak them up but if stiff they push me off the pegs and make the front end fly skywards.

Basically they need to stick to the ground and not beat me to death on the slow speed rough stuff but still not cause me to lose control if I hit something big and high speed and not dive too much on steep downhills. They seem to be a decent compromise after the changes MOTOHEAD suggested the first time but I want to smooth them out a little more.

Then I get to move to the shock.
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Here are a few pics that show what my forks can and cannot do on trails \ roads .... Most of our ST here can be ridden with some speed so I don't have the issue you describe above with trails to tight to carry speed on and my forks are OK in most all cases except for what is shown below...

I also added some sag to the front as was running the forks very high in their stroke at first looking for some plushness at the top of the stroke but this really did not help much I think now after adding a more acceptable sag amount ...

The first two pics show what kills me ... I like riding down dry creek beds but it seems like I get 95% feed back up thru the bars on the rocks... Seems like speed helps some but in most cases, I can't carry speed in these places ... It's like I just pound off each rock at 1MPH ...

The remaining pics show some gnarly roads where I might get some feed back but nothing really harsh unless I hit something that has a really sharp edge or I'm going really fast ...
 

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I was at a track all last week and the forks worked well I feel ... no bottoming and several areas had some jumps I could not double so I was hitting on flat ground somewhat or doing some small step-up and step-down jumps ....

The bike liked to bounce on some of the landing so I just kept closing the rebound clickers till I was 4 clicks from fully closed ...This stopped the bounce on landings but left the forks feeling somewhat ~dead when the bike was sitting still and just compressing the forks ... There was 1 whoops section and just smaller bumps on the track in a few places and the forks felt ok there ....

But does it sound normal to slow the rebound down to this degree?
 
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