Reacting to Ken Roczen’s Shock Malfunction | Shop Talk

[@beccahughey]

Great information! Keep it coming💯🔥

[@Chris_C_]

Speculation…but do Showa provide approved oil level and nitrogen pressures? I imagine all factory teams would have to run within those approved ranges whereas a non-factory team like this may stray outside the approved ranges looking for more performance and end up with pressure spikes the shock can’t handle?…

[@RideJBI]

Thanks for watching and the comment. Unsure about that. The level of involvement is usually a decision of the team.

[@lukekelly5115]

When you vac bleed a shock the amount of gas pressure usually decides the oil volume, if it had too much it would likely run into hydro locking issues way before this i would think. Id bet a good amount of money it was just a material failure and an extremely rare one.

[@mxrevival]

Good chat! 🤘

[@Chris_C_]

@@lukekelly5115 not to go into a back and forth…but technically I would call hydrolocking a case where there is 100% oil volume and no gas, which of course would never be the case. However I imagine pressure would start spiking significantly with additional oil above the manufacturers spec..not saying that did happen but seems like a possibility.

[@tom97zr2]

​@@lukekelly5115your first statements or assumptions are not correct. It's a little too much to text here to explain.