>Anyway I took one of the Cofap shocks out of the box to inspect it and >moved the piston in and out to see how stiff they felt. There was plenty of >resistance when I pulled the piston out but none at all when I tried to >push the piston back in. I figured I got a defective shock, but the other >one behaved the same. Compression damping is lower than rebound because of the spring - the spring and shock are engineered to work *together* as a unit in both directions; which is why if you have bad shocks your handling goes away (and you really don't need a metal spring - compressed gas can be a very nice spring, in that it can automatically provide a rising-rate suspension). Austin
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