After my Magura Wotans decided to be stubborn i decided to take a peak inside the guts of the 160mm travel, 36mm stantioned all mountain/freeride forks.
Compression Adjustment:The 'Albert Select' is a simple adjustment in the world of forks, a blue dial turn the compression damping on and off whilst the central gold knob adjusts the level of compression damping.
Following the gold dial into the fork we find that a sleeve turns revealing a small hole for the oil to flow through and at the end of the compression rod
Compression RodOpen Albert SelectClosed Albert SelectRebound AdjustmentRebound RodThe simple rebound adjustment works by limiting the flow rate of oil as the fork extends after hitting a bump. There are two stages to this operation.
Firstly, as the fork compresses, oil in the main chamber passes through 16 small holes in the white end cap of the rod, displacing a small spring by pushing against a thin washer
As the spring forces the fork to extend, the spring shuts off the 16 holes, forcing all of the oil to flow through four elliptical holes, whose size is determined by the rebound setting. For a faster rebound, and by turning the red rebound know counter-clockwise, the hole is at a maximum size, giving hardly any resistance to the returning oil. For a slower rebound, the knob is turned clockwise which pushes a small rod inbetween the 4 holes, limiting the flow rate of the oil
Fast/Open reboundMedium reboundSlow/Closed reboundAir SpringThe Wotan uses a self regulating dual air chamber at a relatively low pressure to give the forks their suppleness. The Flight Control Remote top cap is linked to the air shaft and opens up a small hole in the shaft when turned which links the two air chambers and enables them to equalize pressure.
The air spring assemblyEqualizing HolesLower air spring Assembly So there you have it!
