The Ultimate MTB Suspension Setup Advice with Jordi Cortes

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Downtime MTB

Health & Fitness, Fitness, Hobbies, Leisure, Wilderness, Sports

4.9 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Downtime Goes Downhill, a podcast mini-series that’s followed our journey in downhill racing, as well as chatting to some of the most knowledgeable experts in the world to help us get faster. Today I’ll be joined by Jordi Cortes from Fox suspension to get the ultimate advice on how to get your bike suspension setup amazingly well for you.

Downtime Goes Downhill wouldn’t be happening without the support of some incredible brands. So a massive thanks to Canyon bikes, Fox suspension, Wahoo Fitness, Fox clothing and protection, Maxxis tyres, Magura brakes and We Are One Composites wheels.

This is episode nine of Downtime Goes Downhill and I’m joined by Fox’s suspension guru, Jordi Cortes. We’re going to be working through how to get setup, from setting sag, to deciding if you need to add or remove volume spacers, to what all the different adjusters do and how you should use them. We also chat about changes you might want to make to the bike in some common scenarios, such as going riding somewhere much steeper than normal. There’s heaps to learn here and I hope it will help you get your bike suspension setup better. So sit back, hit play and listen to episode nine of Downtime Goes Downhill with Jordi Cortes.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Downtime Goes Downhill, a podcast mini-series that's followed our journey in downhill
0:08.5	racing, as well as chatting to some of the most knowledgeable experts in the world to help us all get
0:12.8	faster. I'm your host, Chris Hall, and today I'll be joined by Geordie Cortez from Fox Suspension
0:17.7	to get the ultimate advice on how to get your bike set up amazingly well for you.
0:23.1	Downtime Goes Downhill wouldn't be happening without the sport of some incredible brands.
0:26.9	So a massive thanks to Canyon Bikes, Fox Suspension, Wahu Fitness, Fox Clothing and Protection,
0:32.4	Maxis Tires, Megura brakes and We are One Composite's wheels.
0:36.1	While you're here, don't forget to follow the podcast
0:37.8	by hitting that button on your podcast app now or by head into downtimepodcast.com for slash follow
0:43.4	where there's buttons for all the major platforms to help you get that done. You can also give us a
0:47.4	follow on Instagram and Facebook where we're at downtime podcast to keep up with all that's going on
0:51.8	with the show. Okay, so this is episode nine of downtime goes downhill and I'm joined by Fox's suspension guru, Jordi Cortez. We're going to be working through how to get set up, from set in SAG to deciding if you need to add or remove volume spaces to what all the different adjusters do and how you should use them. We also chat about changes that you might want to make to the bike in some common scenarios, such as going riding somewhere that's much steeper than normal. There's
1:15.0	heaps to learn here, and I hope it will help you get your bike set up better. So without further ado,
1:20.4	here's Downtime Goes Downhill, Episode 9 with Jordy Cortez.
1:27.8	Jordy Cortez, welcome back to the downtime podcast, man.
1:30.8	How's things?
1:32.0	Oh, Chris, good to see you again.
1:34.0	Everything's, I mean, strange, but we're moving along.
1:37.9	Yeah, strange times for the industry, for sure.
1:40.7	And we're going to chat a lot about suspension set up.
1:43.1	But before we do that, just like a little quick reflection back, how was 2023 for you? Like it was a pretty hectic
1:49.4	season, all in. It was a hectic season. So many unknowns and kind of random changes to our normal schedule.
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