How do you tighten the shocks on a mountain bike?

Answer 1

they act as shock dampers. if you ride an unsuspended bike over rough terrain or even small bumps or rocks or any uneven surface, you will notice that the whole bike bounces a bit because the rock or whatever pushes the bike up. When you hit the same bumps or objects with a suspended bike the front fork gets shorter by sliding up therefore avoiding much bouncing by the rest of the bike, and the back wheel moves up too, but the positioning of rear suspension varies greatly by brand and bike. it is very simple really just look at your suspension as you ride over bumps.

Answer 2

Shock absorbers or dampners are resistive to motion. The spring will allow your suspension to flex up and down. The shock absorber is a hydraulic valve that has 2 motions compression and rebound. The compression motion happens when the shock is being compressed or the tire is moving into the body. The rebound happens as the shock is expanding or the tire is moving away from the body.

The shock stabilizes the suspension travel and different types of shocks with different settings can change how quickly the suspension reacts to spring motions.

Answer 3

Unfortunately, that depends completely on the shocks. They're all different.

Most urethane based shocks will allow you to pull a "dust plug" from the top of the fork leg. Down inside the fork leg, there should be an Allen bolt head that holds in the urethane stack. If this applies to your particular forkset, try tightening those first. If tightening this doesn't remove any unwanted play, then you may have to pull out the stack and get new urethane bushing from the manufacturer.