sstrano

So here's the thing. Some shocks don't carry a gas charge. Some use a little bag with 2 or 3 psi of Nitrogen in it. Some use an emulsified gas/oil mix at a fairly low pressure. Some use a high pressure setup, and even then the pressure inside the gas chamber can vary. All those things will change how fast a shock extends. As will, when you run rebound adjustable shocks, what setting you are on. More rebound damping, the slower it will extend. Shocks with little or no charge may do so slowly, or NOT extend on their own at all.

And here's the next detail. No matter how strong you are, you can't cycle a shock like the suspension of the car. There are different setups, valves, shim stacks, bypasses that are dynamic when the car is moving that no person can replicate.

Long, long story short, when you run a test like this you aren't getting good information about damping or control. You might find if you have a gas shock that has de-gassed vs. others. You might find you have them set very differently by mistake. That's about it. This isn't a test you should be using to determine anything, at all, about the performance of a damper.

Nowanker

Koni Shocks also states this as fact. I think this internet rumor just might be true.