What is Motorcycle Suspension Damping and How to Set it Up - Traxxion Dynamics’ Max McAllister

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4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Max McAllister is the President of Traxxion Dynamics, manufacturer of suspension components for motorcycles and mountain bikes. In this episode he talks about what motorcycle suspension dampening is and how to set it up. For more on this episode go to our show notes at https://adventureriderradio.com.

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0:19.8	com a really important part of your A really
0:25.0	and if you didn't have it, you didn't have it, you'd be bouncing down the road,
0:29.0	literally. And get this, your model likely has a damping setting that you're supposed to adjust.
0:34.8	You probably saw the manual and decided to ignore it, but the question is, what the heck is
0:38.6	dampening?
0:39.6	How on earth do I adjust it?
0:41.0	And man, do I really need to know this? Well all the answers are on this episode.
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