What is rebound adjust?
Rebound damping regulates the speed at which your fork or shock recovers, or bounces back, from an impact and returns to its full travel. Much like a compression circuit, rebound damping relies on oil moving through a circuit to regulate the speed at which the suspension extends after being compressed.
How do you adjust rebound damping?
When you decrease rebound damping by turning the adjustment knob counter-clockwise, you allow the shock to extend faster. It feels softer, more supple, and livelier. When you increase rebound damping by turning the adjustment knob clockwise, you make the shock extend slower.
What is shock rebound and compression?
Compression is when the shock gets shorter; rebound is when the shock gets longer. For example, when the front bumper is depressed, compression occurs, when it is released, the shocks rebound. The velocity of a shock is the speed at which it is compressing or rebounding.
How do you set shock rebound?
To set your suspension’s rebound damping, find a kerb. Dial off all your rebound damping to minimum. Ride off the kerb, while standing up on the pedals, at slow to mid-paced speed. Your suspension will probably compress, quickly re-extend (past the sag point), compress again and then re-extend again.
What is low speed rebound?
Low Speed Rebound is a damping adjustment that is controlled via a dial. Suspension that has too much rebound damping (over-damped) will be unable to extend quickly enough, and will ‘pack’, or stay too deep into it’s travel, after successive compressions.
How does preload affect Rebound?
Preload is mostly for turning but does affect the part of the stroke the fork rides at. It will, however, effect the rebound damping by making it faster because of the incresed stored energy in the spring. It has little or no effect on compression damping. Usally the low speed rebound adjust can compensate.
Why do you need a rebound damping adjustment?
Your rebound damping adjustment is meant to give you comfort and control when you’re moving over various kinds of terrain. Rebound isn’t just the “bounce” – it’s literally what allows your shocks to return to extension fast enough to absorb the next bump. Too slow and your shocks pack down.
Why do I need to adjust my car’s rebound settings?
Next the rebound settings, currently set to full soft need adjusting. The rebound settings are the part of the damper that control how fast the car rolls in and out of corners. It does not limit the total amount of roll but the speed at which is rolls. If the rebound is set too stiff in relation to bump then a process called jacking down occurs.
What happens when you make a rebound change?
The forks should spring back almost immediately and may even shoot past the original position before settling back down. When making rebound changes, it’s important to note whether the changes have a noticeable effect on compression damping too (how hard it is to compress).
What should be the base setting for rebound?
You should once again notice a big difference between the two opposite ends of the rebound scale. As a baseline for rebound it is often advised that it should take either the forks or shock about one second to extend back out to their original position. To find that base setting, the easiest way is to adopt the ‘half way’ approach.
How does the high speed rebound adjuster work?
Turning the adjuster clockwise moves the piston’s low speed rebound needle valve inward restricting oil flow and increasing damping. High speed rebound damping is handled by a spring loaded blow off valve on the piston and is not adjustable.
What’s the best way to adjust rebound damping?
Starting with the forks, turn the rebound adjuster clockwise all the way to the stiffest (aka slowest) position, being careful not to over-tighten the adjuster. The adjuster should only sit lightly in the seat when fully stiff, so turn it slowly, stopping as soon as you reach the end of adjustment.
The forks should spring back almost immediately and may even shoot past the original position before settling back down. When making rebound changes, it’s important to note whether the changes have a noticeable effect on compression damping too (how hard it is to compress).
You should once again notice a big difference between the two opposite ends of the rebound scale. As a baseline for rebound it is often advised that it should take either the forks or shock about one second to extend back out to their original position. To find that base setting, the easiest way is to adopt the ‘half way’ approach.