Nice weather for a bike ride. Lack of fitness is showing due to lack of riding!
Sunday, 6 May 2012
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
2012 Trek Superfly 100 AL Pro
First off road ride out on the new bike. it had been raining a lot the last week so i picked the canal to ride down to try and avoid most of the mud but this wasn't really working.
I have been riding the bike on my really "extreme" ride to work and back. After using Trek's guide to setting up the suspension on their bikes I decided that the vigorous testing on my commute over the various curbs, speed bumps and dog poo, that the suspension was too soft, based on Trek's setup it was way too soft at the front and to add to this the rebound was too quick bouncing giving me the feeling of being bounced off the saddle over bumps.
So I used this ride to setup the bike in a more realistic setting. Armed with my shock pump, allen keys, a bumpy canal and some steps to drop off nearer to home to test the settings.
Well my current settings that I had personalized on the way to work were useless. Too hard, rebound couldn't control the suspension, front was way too hard leaving me with a slack steering.
After some playing with rebound, pro pedal and air pressure I improved it greatly.
At the half way point I googled "Trek Suspension Setup" to see how Trek's settings compared. They were pretty close, I had more pressure in the rear but the same in the front, which surprised me as i originally thought it was too soft. Although i did have a slightly slower rebound settings.
The higher pressure in the rear that i ended up with is probably to do with coming from a hardtail.
On the way home after avoiding attack from the swan which attacked me on the way out and few at me on the way home. I rode the dropoff down the steps and didn't bottom out the suspension so its not too soft.
Just got to get out and ride it some more now to get ready for mountain mayhem.
You can see Trek's suspension setup here.
http://www.trekbikes.com/uk/en/resources/suspension_setup/
I have been riding the bike on my really "extreme" ride to work and back. After using Trek's guide to setting up the suspension on their bikes I decided that the vigorous testing on my commute over the various curbs, speed bumps and dog poo, that the suspension was too soft, based on Trek's setup it was way too soft at the front and to add to this the rebound was too quick bouncing giving me the feeling of being bounced off the saddle over bumps.
So I used this ride to setup the bike in a more realistic setting. Armed with my shock pump, allen keys, a bumpy canal and some steps to drop off nearer to home to test the settings.
Well my current settings that I had personalized on the way to work were useless. Too hard, rebound couldn't control the suspension, front was way too hard leaving me with a slack steering.
After some playing with rebound, pro pedal and air pressure I improved it greatly.
At the half way point I googled "Trek Suspension Setup" to see how Trek's settings compared. They were pretty close, I had more pressure in the rear but the same in the front, which surprised me as i originally thought it was too soft. Although i did have a slightly slower rebound settings.
The higher pressure in the rear that i ended up with is probably to do with coming from a hardtail.
On the way home after avoiding attack from the swan which attacked me on the way out and few at me on the way home. I rode the dropoff down the steps and didn't bottom out the suspension so its not too soft.
Just got to get out and ride it some more now to get ready for mountain mayhem.
You can see Trek's suspension setup here.
http://www.trekbikes.com/uk/en/resources/suspension_setup/
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