Rear shock

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Rear shock

Postby chadz » Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:28 pm

Does the sx and sm 125 share the same rear shock absorber as the rt125?. If not is the rt adjustable
Becuase i have been looking at my shock and seem you can by the huge nut...
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Re: Rear shock

Postby Nobog » Sat Oct 27, 2012 2:32 pm

If the "huge not" is on the bottom of the spring that you are talking about, that is used to set the pre-load on the spring. This is used to set the "sag". It is the single most understood concept of suspension tuning. This will accomodate, to a varing degree, differnent rider weights. Tightening (compressing the spring) will increase when the spring first starts to move. It will not change the spring rate - in other words it will not affect how the shock "bottoms out". The 125's are to simple (read cheap) to offer compression or rebound dampening.

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Re: Rear shock

Postby stephendacosta » Tue Nov 06, 2012 7:31 pm

The RT shock is about 3/4" shorter than the SM & SX.
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