Video Comparison of Progressive Shock Damping Settings

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Aug 15, 2013
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El Paso, TX
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1993 ST1100
This short video shows the difference in body motion when setting a Progressive Suspension rear shock at rebound damping settings 1, 2, 3, and 5. Setting 1 is clearly underdamped, setting 3 eliminates visible repeated oscillations, setting 5 felt overdamped for my tastes. Riding in to work today on setting 3 felt pretty good and less harsh than riding on setting five over the last few weeks. Suspension was likely "packing" over some bump sequences and not extending quickly enough due to overdamped rebound at setting 5.
[video=youtube_share;osI_y4buf1E]http://youtu.be/osI_y4buf1E[/video]
 
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Donegal, Ireland.
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Vstrom 650
Great post,just fitted a new wilbers 640 shock,but haven't tried adjusting the damping yet to see what difference it makes,it's got 22 clicks of damping so there's lots of adjustment in it.
 
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