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Velotechnik

You will reach this value by changing the air

pressure in the fork.

It is not important to exactly follow the re-

commended values for the negative travel, rat-

her follow your feeling how the bicycle beha-

ves during a ride, depending on the road situa-

tion and your speed.

While riding you should only seldomly feel the

suspension bottoming out. However, in case

this never occurs, the suspension might be set

up too hard, which means you don't use the

available suspension travel.

Adjusting the suspension

Front wheel suspension with suspen-

sion fork

The front wheel is suspended by a suspension

fork.The suspension fork of the Spirit comes

with an Airwings steering tube suspension sy-

stem. In contrast to conventional telescopic

suspension forks the suspension elements are

situated in the steering tube above the crown

of the fork.

During compression the lower part of the fork

moves into the steering tube that is held in

the frame by the headset.A shock boot pro-

tects the moving parts against soiling. Inside

the steering tube there is a linear ball bearing

that secures the parts of the fork against tur-

ning, thus enabling precise steering move-

ments.

A new suspension fork has to be broken in for

at least 300 km (190 miles), so that the guides

adjust and rough edges become smooth.At the

beginning, the fork only compresses through

harder shocks.Therefore, you should wait for

the end of the break in period to judge the

spring stiffness correctly.

The suspension travel is about 40 mm (1,6

inch).The suspension fork should compress by

20-30% when you sit down on your bike (ne-

gative travel), this corresponds to 9-11 mm

(0,4 - 0,43 inch).

The suspension of the front wheel is integrated in the steering tu-

be.

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