Hi everyone,
I have serviced my forks and they are working pretty well except for nose diving during hard braking. Has anyone installed shrader valves to the fork caps and added 5 psi or so to eliminate the nose diving under hard braking? If so, what pressure seemed to work best?

Thanks, Mike

 

I know the method you're talking about, but these KYB's aren't as good a candidate for this application. There isn't a lot of free air volume in them to benefit from this. Not sure what model you have, but I think all models of these 43mm KYB's have compression adjusters, and that may be the route you need to try. The biggest complaint about these forks is the lack of rebound damping and soft fork springs. Your description also sounds like too soft a spring...perhaps? Are they the OEM springs? Also try the compression adjusters by cranking in some more damping to slow down the oil flow through the shim stack.

 

Yes-standard springs. I will dial in some compression damping and see if it improves some. I imagine that will work pretty well while on the road but off road may be different. Thanks.