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Re: Clicks or turns ?



- ----- Original Message -----
From: Antony Charles (by way of Eric Sheley <eric@xxxxxxxxxx>)
<antonyc@xxxxxxxxx>

> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:03:33 +0100
> From: Antony Charles <antonyc@xxxxxxxxx>
> Organization: OWL
> To: ST Mailing List <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Sorry if this is a daft question - put it down to the excessive rain
> we've been having recently :-{
>
> I was adjusting the rear preload and rebound damping on my ST today and
> got myself a little confused over whether a "turn" of the adjusters was
> 180 or 360 degrees.
>
> The confusion wasn't helped by the fact that the rear preload adjuster
> clicks every 180 degrees. On most bikes I've come across before that
> have screw type adjusters the manual has talked in terms of one click
> being the same as one turn.
>
> The ST manual just mentions turns (eg. 10 turns out for standard
> preload, and 1.5 turns out for standard rebound damping).
>
> So does 10 turns out mean, 10 times 360 degrees (20 clicks) or 10 times
> 180 degrees (10 clicks)
>
> The rear damping adjuster doesn't click, but I assume that if 180
> degrees equals one turn for the preload adjuster then the same is true
> for the rear preload - which would make the standard setting of 1.5
> turns equal 270 degrees out.
>
> Thanks for sorting out this addled brain.
>
>
> Antony

One turn = 360 degrees = two clicks

Regards, Ian



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