In Episode 20 of Season Two, Jordi breaks down a shock valve assembly and explains the basic purpose of valves (shims).
| For the very basic, on compression, you have your compression ports and you have that first valve. All that's happening is, as the shock moves, oil is going through these holes and pushing against this little piece of metal.That's most of what creates damping. So, the more of these valves you put on there, the more damping you're going to build.-Jordi |
Learn something new about shock valves? What would you like to see the DIALED crew breakdown next? Comment below!
I personally want to see some IMU data from on-bike testing when someone says "component x does y better".
It is a very good shock. For the shim based shocks you can get different tunes through FOX Service Centers or the usual suspends from push to avalanche.
A) prototype unit in development phase that will be released next april with N+1 modelyear markings
B) custom shimstack to change when low/high overlap or change - and how much, maybe diff oil
C) placebo to keep riders happy that Jordi did something good for them