How to adjust front suspension fork on Turbo Vado 5.0 IGH? No instructions in manual.

[Stefan Mikes]

Don't known about Nonlinear but sticker on my bike and screenshot from SRAM shows different pressure. Can't take a picture of the sticker since I am not where the bike is but Thursday I'll do

Trust the sticker, Catch. It is what any MTBer with an air-fork does. Only do not exceed the maximum rated inflation pressure.

The value on the sticker is only a solid start point. Is there an O-ring on your left-side arm of the fork? If yes:

• Slide it all way down
• Wear your cycling clothes and shoes and mount the e-bike (someone could support you so you do not fall). Take a normal riding position.
• Get off the bike. The O-Ring should have moved up.
• Measure the distance it has moved.

So called "initial sag" is the distance the O-Ring moved up divided by the full fork travel. It should be 15-20% of the full fork travel. If this is not the fact, deflate or inflate the fork to get at the value.

No O-Ring? Make one from a piece of rubber.

Not sure if your fork includes "rebound control". Is there a plug at the bottom of the right arm of the fork that could be unscrewed?

 

[Nonlinear]

Guys: Your suspension forks are of different travel, so the inflation pressure for either is different. Use the information from the sticker.

Thanks, yeah, we know that!

 

[Nonlinear]

Not sure if your fork includes "rebound control". Is there a plug at the bottom of the right arm of the fork that could be unscrewed?

Yes indeed, we do have rebound control. There is even a sticker with images of a tortoise and a hare

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Yes indeed, we do have rebound control. There is even a sticker with images of a tortoise and a hare

Just saying the rebound control is not intuitive.

 

[Catch]

Trust the sticker, Catch. It is what any MTBer with an air-fork does. Only do not exceed the maximum rated inflation pressure.

The value on the sticker is only a solid start point. Is there an O-ring on your left-side arm of the fork? If yes:

• Slide it all way down
• Wear your cycling clothes and shoes and mount the e-bike (someone could support you so you do not fall). Take a normal riding position.
• Get off the bike. The O-Ring should have moved up.
• Measure the distance it has moved.

So called "initial sag" is the distance the O-Ring moved up divided by the full fork travel. It should be 15-20% of the full fork travel. If this is not the fact, deflate or inflate the fork to get at the value.

No O-Ring? Make one from a piece of rubber.

Not sure if your fork includes "rebound control". Is there a plug at the bottom of the right arm of the fork that could be unscrewed?

It doesn't have a O ring that's why I contacted SRAM support in the first place.
It got rebound.
I'm on holiday and get back to you later this week.