Great read and simply explained.

Can you make a topic for motorcycle tune up. Thanks in advance.

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Thank you. It's a privilege to be a resource for riders and I hope to keep at it for years to come.

Top? Him, Zack, and Ryan F9 are the best on the internet.

@@ferociousfrankie I know F9 but who is Zack?

@@tariqholder8818 Zack Courts

@@AriH211 you are the best because you actually work on motorcycles. I'm a trained mechanic but always watch your videos to learn new stuff.

Read the article, nice brake down and couple good ideas in the comments. Cheers !

I watched it the first day, and every couple months come back to it cuz suspension is confusing for me

And his Mickey Mouse giggle whilst bouncing around..

Wassup oggy!

Oggy, oggy, oggy...hoi, hoi, hoi... ...getting me coat...

What will his wife think of the pillion ride?

We need this

Me either bro.

Happy it helped!

@@AriH211 great vid. One more thing i wonder. If you increase damping, (by turning the knob to +) does that make the suspension feel softer? As in compressing further/compressing faster. I can’t wrap my head around it

@@AriH211 it definitely did,thank you!

@@HeyAddieImTojo depending if you mean compression damping or rebound damping? Compression is hard/soft rebound is slow/fast. Maybe + could be harder. For compression. Don't get any of these mixed up with pre load

Something vaguely like this? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kNqqh9x0sM6Zlo0.html

There is no correct setting. It depends on what bike you ride, how long since the suspension was serviced, how heavy you are, how your weight is distributed on the bike, any additional weight such as luggage or pillion, even tyre pressure. Generally speaking, if you can't get the sag numbers, or are at the maximum adjustment to get the number, you need to replace the springs. You can set rebound damping by compressing the forks and letting them return to the natural position and adjusting flow so the forks extend as quickly as possible, without topping out and going back down. It is worth the fifty bucks or so to get a professional setup if you don't know how to do it yourself.

@@theresanothersteve True, but that's what formulas are for; like the one he used for the sag setting. From there you can adjust till it feels just right.

It's just the right amount for dampening properly...

@@WillyO That's "damping" properly.

Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣

His face is mostly healed up after blowing half of it off with a judiciously misplaced firecracker.

he must work out just before shooting a video

Well then thanks for the views ;)

And not "dampening"!

It does work at all speed. People often think it as counter steering to where the bike goes, it actually is giving a counter force to where the bike leans. The bike goes to same direction where it leans. However, At low speed, there’s not enough momentum to hold the bike to from gravity. So people counter steer against the bike from falling to the ground, which looks like steering to where the bike goes. If people have ever practiced static balance when the bike isn’t moving forward at all for enduro riding they will know better. Counter steer is working for the bike’s leaning and that’s not exactly the same as the direction the bike goes.

@@timmychen6 Correct. People used to cars where the steering directly controls the rate of turn have a hard time understanding countersteering. The also have a hard time learning to fly an airplane as airplane physics is nearly identical to motorcycle physics. In an airplane, turning the control wheel simply changes the angle of bank of the airplane, it doesn’t directly initiate a turn. The turn is initiated by the bank of the airplane. So, unlike a car where you turn the wheel a certain amount and then hold it steady for the duration of the turn. If you hold the control wheel in an airplane in a fixed position, you will do an aileron roll and not a turn. You turn the control wheel to establish a certain bank angle and then you return it to center for the duration of the turn. You then turn it the opposite direction to remove the bank angle and thus stop the turn. So, even though you don’t turn the airplane wheel the opposite direction as with a motorcycle, you are using the control to establish an angle of bank just as a motorcycle establishes an angle of lean.

Got too get my dose of ari and zack. If I have to come to revzilla now so be it.

I had to laugh when he broke that thing out

You're welcome.

Glad ya liked it!