Battery Maintenance - Whyte ES-140 SCR Supplementary Service Manual

WHYTE Service Manual
riding gear, including back pack if applicable, and also raise your feet off the floor. Careful-
ly dismount and measure the distance the 'O' ring has moved away from the shock body.
The optimum distance for the Quad-Link rear suspension system is shown in the table to
the right. If there is less than that distance fit a shock pump and release air pressure. Con-
versely if there is greater than that distance, fit the shock pump and increase air pressure.
Repeat the 'sag' test until the recommended sag distance is achieved.
Rear Suspension Set-up - Rebound Damping:
When the damper unit is being compressed, this is known as the compression stroke. As
the suspension unit recovers from compression back towards its full length, this is called
the re-bound stroke. All the shocks fitted as standard to the Whyte full suspension moun-
tain bikes have factory set compression damping, and manually adjustable rebound damp-
ing.
Rebound Damping Adjustment:
The advice in section 3.3 about the fork rebound damping adjustments also applies to the
rear shock.
IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTE:
Always stop riding when making adjustments of any kind to the bicycle!
Platform Damping Adjustment.
The rear Shock fitted to your Whyte bike may have a "platform" facility to adjust the slow
speed compression damping, eg Fox "3pos w/Adj" or SRAM RockShox "Motion Control".
Please refer to the relevant shock manufactures technical information to learn how to ad-
just these features.
Please note, that the Whyte rear suspension systems have been designed not to rely on
excessive low speed compression damping to obtain efficient pedalling performance, and
turning on too much low speed damping on the rear shock will compromise the suspen-
sions sensitivity to small bump absorption and traction.
3.6: BATTERY MAINTAINENCE
Tools Required: Shimano charging equipment.
Given that the combined mass of the electric power system makes these bikes significantly
heavier than equivalent pedal cycles, it is important to avoid running out of battery power
whilst riding. Otherwise the bike will be quite a challenge to continue riding! Therefore it
is advised to implement the recommendations made by Shimano concerning battery
maintenance, charging regime and replacement/disposal, as detailed within the Shimano
STEPS User manual listed on page 9.
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