Published On Premiered Feb 22, 2021
Valving and shim stacks are probably the least understood topic in the dirt bike community, not only because it's a complex and subjective topic by itself, but because there's little information available... Not anymore!
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0:00 Intro
0:27 The birth of shim stacks & valves
1:10 Anatomy of shim stack valves
2:05 How tapered single-stage shim stacks work
3:00 How tapered double-stage shim stacks work
4:08 Changing the ports
5:04 Changing the shims
7:00 How it affects the damping curve
10:32 Tuning experience
11:12 End
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