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Old 12-21-2013, 01:21 AM
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Originally Posted by twowheels View Post
You can think of the PFP as simply an additional spring aiding in the support of the front end of the bike. It's adjustment allows for easy external adjustment of front end stiffness. That's one of the reasons a 48 Marzocchi PFP fork with 0.42s feels way stiffer than an 48 Sachs OC or 45 Marzocchi OC.
Not to mention an Australian tuner actually measured the rate of a set of springs out of these as closer to .44 than .42, but what you say still applies.
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