Hi fellow MTB fanatics,
Interesting discussion.
My son has a Zeb 180mm on his NS Define 170. Because he is just 47 kg I wanted to make sure the fork would work as good as possible for him.
To reduce friction I had my son's Zeb (and all other forks I own) burnished and that made the forks much more plush. Especially the Zeb's with the 38mm stanchions.
I bought a Trutune for my son to make it easier for him to use travel.
When putting my son's fork back together, I noticed something what happens when using the fork on low pressure. When cycling the fork through it's travel, to equalise the negative and positive chambers, the fork didn't return to full travel. The cycling causes the air to be pushed out at the seals, after which the lowers suck in the uppers. The lower air pressure of the spring cannot overcome this lower pressure in the lowers. I used zib ties to get the air back in the lowers.
I installed a Quark Shockwizz on my fork to finetune my settings. The shockwizz needs to be calibrated and therefore one needs to compress the fork all the way, without any spring pressure. I found out this was not an easy thing to do, because the pressure in the lowers (probably the spring side) became very high. Again I used zib ties to get rid of the air.
Bottom line is that the lowers have a significant effect on how the fork performs. Unlike tuning the airspring, there is a cheap way to resolve this. I am going to make, or buy an Everflow Airlink.
Does anybody have any experience with an Everflow Airlink? How does it perform?
Has anybody tried to make such a device themselves? It should be quiet easy, once you have the right parts.
Cheers,
Pieter