Anti-dive block off plate?

[salty_monk]

How's the rebound? I am assuming that these plates don't affect rebound damping only compression. Using a different size of passage or being able to adjust it with a screw would basically give you adjustable compression damping, that's pretty sophisticated for a 25 year old bike!
It would actually be a good thing as obviously with adjustable compression damping you can do stuff you can't do with the springs (as compression damping affects the hard "spikes" in movement more than the soft slower stuff).

Dan

Dan

[Nessism]

Bike is back together so was able to test the forks (in the garage only though); they feel the same as any other GS forks I've owned. I'm starting to think the damping may have a convoluted routing passage but with the passage open (large groove in the plate), it's just a regular fork. Constricting down the passage in the plates would increase the damping too much I think.

[salty_monk]

Every fork should have two lots of damping.
1. Compression
2. Rebound

On a set of forks as basic as the GS it would be strange if the 2 circuits were separate but that's not to say that they aren't or that the plates would affect one element more than the other.

With the block off plates fitted are the forks much slower to rise as well as being harder to compress or just harder to compress?

If it's the first then that's ok, you could be able to adjust both using a bolt or something in the passage.

In their intended usage the fact that the anti dive units affected rebound wouldn't matter unless you were going over a repetitive set of bumps with the brakes applied. It's an interesting thought....

Dan