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got a used kona stinky, and it is the first full suss bike i've had, also never had anything better than a rock shox jett before so i don't really have any shock experience to know what a good one should feel like. since where i live there isn't a descent, competant bike shop i don't know.
they rear vanilla is springy and tight. i screwed the cap to where you you can just move the spring and then turned it two turns tight. i get about 25% sag, but when i try to put my hands on the seat and throw my weight over the bike to test the shock it doesn't compress very far at all. i would think i couls get it close to bottoming out but i don't think it even compresses halfway, if that. i weigh 180 and it is a 600 x 225. it also seems more like a bed spring. it is bouncy. i don't know if this is how it is supposed to be or not. at the store i did sit on a new stinky and the shock felt alot diefferent more like how i think a shock should feel, not so boucy and springy. but i don't know for sure because this one had a 450 on it so i don't know if it just felt different because it is a looser shock. if my shock is messed can i get a new spring or is it gone.
and the marzocchi z-1 wedge on front. the store said they though it had recently been rebuilt but they are lying sacks, so it may or may not have been. anyways. it makes a shlushihng noise coupled with a creaking spring noise when compressed. it also doesn't really feel like the dirt jumper three that new stinky had. it isn't as smooth feeling. i adjusted it and it can be good and tight or loose, just not that smooth like the new one, i guess i would describe the new one like "butter" if that makes sense. is this shock just old? or do you think it is ok? otherwise what should i do. i want my bike working great.
thanks for taking the time to read this and give me some advice. i know it isn't possible to know for sure what, if anything is wrong, but i tried to describe it the best i could.
they rear vanilla is springy and tight. i screwed the cap to where you you can just move the spring and then turned it two turns tight. i get about 25% sag, but when i try to put my hands on the seat and throw my weight over the bike to test the shock it doesn't compress very far at all. i would think i couls get it close to bottoming out but i don't think it even compresses halfway, if that. i weigh 180 and it is a 600 x 225. it also seems more like a bed spring. it is bouncy. i don't know if this is how it is supposed to be or not. at the store i did sit on a new stinky and the shock felt alot diefferent more like how i think a shock should feel, not so boucy and springy. but i don't know for sure because this one had a 450 on it so i don't know if it just felt different because it is a looser shock. if my shock is messed can i get a new spring or is it gone.
and the marzocchi z-1 wedge on front. the store said they though it had recently been rebuilt but they are lying sacks, so it may or may not have been. anyways. it makes a shlushihng noise coupled with a creaking spring noise when compressed. it also doesn't really feel like the dirt jumper three that new stinky had. it isn't as smooth feeling. i adjusted it and it can be good and tight or loose, just not that smooth like the new one, i guess i would describe the new one like "butter" if that makes sense. is this shock just old? or do you think it is ok? otherwise what should i do. i want my bike working great.
thanks for taking the time to read this and give me some advice. i know it isn't possible to know for sure what, if anything is wrong, but i tried to describe it the best i could.