setup tips?

[byrner46]

im confused on how to setup my bike for outdoors and its driving me insane if people could give me some tips or something that would be really helpful my main problme is the back end getting squirly under breaking and the front wheel slipping out of ruts or just sliding out

[Wahlamt]

im confused on how to setup my bike for outdoors and its driving me insane if people could give me some tips or something that would be really helpful my main problme is the back end getting squirly under breaking and the front wheel slipping out of ruts or just sliding out

Slipping out of ruts is probably practise, but if you have the rider mass distribution too high (I have mine at .38) the bike will lose the front wheel pretty easily. For the rear, make the suspension a little bit softer and the rebound about 75+ A different feel works for different people, just mess around until you find what you like

[byrner46]

so just change a random thing till it feels right ?

[Lawsy139]

I'm no pro, but I drop my front and rear compression about 15 clicks from my supercross setup for the national tracks. Make sure your front is a bit stiffer then your rear end, so the bike can 'squat' and keep the front end nice and high when leaning back down the bumpy straights. I seem to have pretty good traction with rebound around 70 front and rear, but It changes with each track. Make sure you are leaning forward through the ruts, especially the off camber ones like at hang town. Also, you might want to mix up the sprockets to make the bike gearing a bit higher.

If the back end is sliding when braking soften the front compression and raise the back rebound. That's what I'd do irl.

Hope I helped .