|   Which spring do you have on your 5th element? | Mountain Cycle Shawn
Aug 3, 2003 10:02 PM | | mine is a 450 pound spring. The shock is 7.5" eye to eye with 2" stroke and it gives 6" of travel. I weigh 155 pounds and the shock is on a '03 Mountain Cycle San Andreas. I am running minimum preload and have 17mm of sag which is about 35% of the 2" shock travel. The shock feels a little sluggish but it is getting better as it gets broken in. I have about an hour and a half riding time on it. I looked on the website at the Quick Starte settings and most bikes with a single pivot are using a lighter spring. Do you think I need a lighter spring? |
| re: Which spring do you have on your 5th element? | JFST
Aug 4, 2003 4:31 PM | | I think that spring is definately way too heavy for you. I don't know what your bike calls for because different suspension leverage on different bikes can require different springs for the same weight riders. I recently bought a large Intense Uzzi SLX which also uses the 7.5" i2i and 2" stroke 5th element and run a 350 spring. I'm about 160 pounds and the 400 spring it came with was really stiff and slow under my weight even in the lowest preload. |
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