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Old 07-20-2001, 09:25 AM
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I was out on the quad hitting a few jumps and noticed I was starting to bottem out the front shocks when getting anything over 3.5ft to 4ft air. Ilooked at the front shocks and they are set on the softest setting so I moved them up two settings. Does anyone know the spring rates on the warrior? I do mostly fast paced trail riding but love to hit the jumps when I can find them. Do you thing this setting will be good for that kind of riding? I'm still tring to figure out this hole preload thing.
 
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Old 07-20-2001, 09:41 AM
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If you want to do any serious jumping, you will have to buy a set of shocks for the fronts that have compression adjustments on them. Triple rate shocks with either piggyback or remote reservoirs.

Preload adjustment sets the shocks for a given body weight. It won't make any noticeable improvement in bottoming out.
 
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Old 07-20-2001, 09:52 AM
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Ok, I weigh 165lb so any ideal what preload setting would work best for me on my warrior? Or do I need to adj and ride it until it feels right? I like for it to soak up the little bumps on the trail but don't want it to bottom out on the big jumps, I'll look into a set of Works shocks in the future.
 
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Old 07-20-2001, 11:54 AM
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The front shocks on my Warrior are set where yours are. In the middle adjustment. It works good on the jumps now. On the trail I found it was a little rough though. I wish I had turned it back to the softest setting before I went out on the trail but I didn't. It probably corners better on the trail with the middle setting anyway. I'm just going to leave it on the middle setting that way when I come upon that occasional jump I don't have to worry about bottoming out.
 
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