How to Dial in MTB Suspension from Sag to Rebound for Every Trail

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

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Sports, Wilderness

4.7 • 574 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Sam Anderson is the Brand Manager for Cane Creek Cycling Components based in Fletcher, NC just outside Pisgah National Forest. Cane Creek designs and markets their own line of shocks and suspension forks and assembles many items by hand at their factory in Western North Carolina.

What is suspension compression?
What is rebound?
What do you see people typically getting wrong when it comes to suspension setup?
What is meant by a linear or progressive suspension curve as it relates to full suspension mountain bikes?
What are the differences between a coil and air shock?
Is it possible to perfectly tune suspension to ignore pedal inputs while remaining responsive to the trail?
What is stiction, and how important is minimizing it?
How do you know when your fork/shock needs a rebuild or service?
What are some of the latest innovations in suspension design? Will tomorrow's shocks and forks look like the ones we have today?

Check out suspension products from canecreek.com.

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0:00.0	The Single Tracks podcast is brought to you by TPC, the Proz Closet.
0:04.6	Spring is the perfect time to upgrade, and TPC has an industry-leading selection of new and
0:10.0	certified pre-owned bikes, plus frames, wheels, and accessories.
0:14.7	Each certified, pre-owned bike is inspected, tested, and serviced, and every bike includes 30-day
0:20.6	returns.
0:21.7	Visit tpc.bike forward slash single tracks and intercode single tracks 40 to save $40
0:27.9	on every order over 200.
0:30.6	That's the pros closet at tpc.bike slash single tracks and look for the link and coupon code
0:37.4	in the show notes.
0:38.5	Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.
0:41.9	My name is Jeff and today my guest is Sam Anderson.
0:45.9	Sam is the brand manager for Kane Creek cycling components based in Fletcher, North Carolina,
0:51.8	which is just outside Pisgah National Forest.
0:55.1	Kane Creek designs and markets their own line of shocks and suspension forks
0:59.1	and assembles many of the items by hand at their factory in Western North Carolina.
1:04.2	Thanks for joining me, Sam.
1:06.2	Yeah, thanks for having me, Jeff. This is awesome.
1:08.1	So how'd you end up at Kane Creek?
1:10.5	Oh, man, That's a loaded
1:13.3	question there. Yeah, I've been at Canc Creek now since 2014, so almost a decade. Oh, wow.
1:20.4	I originally got the job here because I made a full-length mountain bike film in 2010 in college.
1:29.0	And I got hired by the marketing department, Holly Colson, at the time.
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