|   Help with Fox Float RL lockout lever | Mr. Waffle
Jun 6, 2002 9:05 AM | | Ok, so I'm playing around with my new bike last night, and I see this in the Float RL owner's manual:
"The compression adjuster is the blue lever. There are two options for lever position. For one option, the lever is at a 45°
angle counter clockwise to the shock in the normal position. Moving the lever clockwise 90° increases compression
damping. For the other option, the lever is in line with the shock in the normal position. Moving the lever 180° in either
direction increases compression damping."
Talk about your ridiculously bad directions! Can anyone understand what they are tying to say?
By trial and error I found the lockout position. Would never have figured it out from Fox's description. It seems like the lever will sit in 4 possible positions, one is locked out, the other 3 seem to all be the same (not locked). Am I missing anything here? Are their differences in the way the 3 non-locked positions will behave? |
| you got it. | heff®
Jun 6, 2002 9:59 AM | | Your lockout lever isn't much of a compression adjustment, really. It's why they changed the name from Float RC to Float RL........
Your lever, parallel with the shock body, is full open. Rotate it all the way up, and it locks out. In between, there's a minimal difference in compression damping. Most people use it either full open or full closed, no in-between.
heff® |
| one more question | Mr Waffle
Jun 6, 2002 10:13 AM | | Your description indicates that the lever will sit in one of two positions, parallel to the shock body, or at a 90 degree angle to the shock body.
My lever wants to sit at either a 90 degree angle to the shock body, or a 45 degree angle to the body on either side of the shock (4 positions total, think of 3, 5, 7, and 9 o'clock positions). It will not sit parallel to the shock body (6 o'clock).
Out of these 4 positions, one of the 45 degree positions is locked out (7 o'clock), the others are not locked out.
What gives? |
| Not the shock. | OldSchool
Jun 7, 2002 10:09 AM | | Err.... when the lever is in the 7:00 position. I don't know. That's what mine does also. I just remember, left-side = locked & right-side = unlocked.
Cheers,
Tim |
| RC/RL | Dirtfiesta
Aug 21, 2002 7:53 AM | | I had the same problem understanding those lever instructions. "Two possible positions," but 4 descriptions of various positions...
My RC lockout lever wants to sit in a variety of positions -- some lock it out and some don't. When it lies completely against the shock body, it's locked out. When I want it back again, I just fumble with it and bounce around 'til I feel that it's unlocked. It's not a big deal, but I wonder why it's so sloppy. |
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