I'm sure stiff suspension makes you guys faster. At your riding skill level it's probably a must. But please bear in mind that I'm a 40 year old fat guy who spends weekends drinking beer, and all the exercise I get are two to three hours of riding the bike every week. And I only started out ridning enduro bikes in 2004. So I'm a hopeless case, but still I like to make progress. I have just now, with the aid of my softer suspension, started to catch up to the speed I used to have on my ol twosmoke husky, which I traded in for the gasser last december. Since the stock valving on the fse was beating the crap out of me I had to do somthing to make it enjoyable. And making it even stiffer (which I already did with new springs) didn't seem like the way to go.
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