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Standard fork valving

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Bart

Husqvarna
AA Class
I'm looking for the standard valving on the CR125 or TC250 with Marzocchi CC 50mm fork (red cap on top). A setting that works for an amateur 65kg mx rider. I've ridden a few YZ and YZF and the suspension is unbelievable plush and doesn't bottom. My fork has been revalved and is quite harsh.
I can do the revalving myself, and have contacted several suspension shops and asked for info and I'm willing to pay for a good shimm stack setup, but none of them wants to help me out.

BTW bike is a TM racing MX125 and EN300.
 
There might be a few threads on those type forks out here somewhere on site... Maybe as far back as the 2008-2010 range ....My 08 TXC250 has those forks ... One thing for sure is that inner bladder has got to be bled of all air completely or you'll have issues maybe ...That bleeding process is on-site here also somewhere.

Those forks were bad day 1 for me. After bleeding the inner chambers of air, I aligned the few shims on the compression valve big-to-little in size (a straight stack configuration) and the bike felt very good to me on trails and small tracks .... Seems like I made a single change to the MID valve but can't quite remember ...

Another thing was, it seems the manual on those forks call for 320cc oil? ... That would have made my forks into poles .. 280cc was closer to correct for my bike and I went as low as ~250cc oil to soften them.

You might wanna try the gold valves company for their parts and they will give you some sample stacks I think ...

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If no ones gives you anything else, I'd ensure the inner bladder was free of air and maybe post what your stack looks like now ... There might be a few guys here who can help if they are still around this site... Overall, we just aren't tuners on this site really.
 
Thanks, for your information.
I made sure the bladder was free from air and pre-expanded.
250cc might be good for trail ridding but bottoms way to easy for mx. I think I have 300cc in them now, anything less then 280cc bottoms to easily and becomes harsh cause it blows through the stroke.

I have the standard enduro setup from TM racing on paper, but I'm not sure what they've done to the midvalve, will upload them in a sec.
 
I have to go back up to the 280cc range if I was going back on the track also .., But above the 280cc range, mine would start feeling really stiff ...

My level of tuning ends about here ... Maybe someone can give you some ideas on that stack ...
 
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