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Old 09-25-16 | 02:12 PM
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gsa103
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Bikes: Bianchi Infinito (Celeste, of course)

Originally Posted by eMDee
great, so the springs is replaced, feels better immediately, I am using almost all the travel, finally getting some sag and on bigger bumps it is a lot more comfy. but still does not react to smaller bumps, like a field road, roots in forest etc. I am getting quite a violent hit from the front and by looks I do not see the fork doing any dampening. Now I do not know, if this is some kind of a problem, or actually an expected behaviour for a fork of this price range and I should get used to it.
There are a couple of things. Are you sure the fork isn't accidentally locked out? RockShox forks don't have a hard lock-out, the lock-out will open in response to a hard impact.

The other posibility is that there some excess stiction somewhere that prevent the fork from moving slowly.

Try standing next to the bike, lock the front brake and then slowly lean on the handlebars until you have almost all your weight on it. The front fork should smoothly compress. If it doesn't compress at all, that would indicate that the fork is locked-out. If it takes a modest amount to get started, then moves slowly, that's probably something sticking.
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