Can You Increase Rear Shock Travel at Traveling

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Can You Increase Rear Shock Travel. The original shock is a fox dps (165mm,38mm), i plan to replace it by a dvo shock (165mm,42.5mm), according to the ratio, the rear travel will increase to 110mm. Again a shock change will only help if the car is really close to begin with.

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You can now see that as the suspension cycles through its 6″ of compression travel you are only using 3 inches of shock travel, 12″ original measurement minus the 9″ you now measured. Decreasing the front rebound allows the weight to get off the rear faster. I think that change won't make the rear tyre hit the seat tube while bottom out and of course the lowest bb.

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If you are very lucky, you can boost up the rear end (again, matching heavy duty shocks, of a length that reflects your lift) and just use torsion bars to compensate and level. There’s more to the equation for the rear suspension, since the rear axle’s range of motion, or travel, is dictated by the bike’s linkage, not the shock’s stroke. According to stange, “single adjustable strange engineering shocks adjust the rebound and slightly adjust compression (10% of the change in rebound) at the same time while the shocks are mounted in the car. However, springs and shock absorbers need to complement.