How Recommendations Work
Last updated: September 14, 2026
Rebound MTB gives you a starting setup for your fork, shock and tyres from your weight and the parts on your bike. If Fox or RockShox publish a figure for your weight, that's the number you get. If they publish nothing, the app tells you that instead of making one up.
What a suggestion is
Set the pressure it gives you, measure your sag, and move from there. Two or three rides is usually enough to know. The table can't see your frame's leverage ratio or the trails you ride, which is what the sag measurement is for.
Where each number comes from
Every value in the app carries one of three labels.
A Manufacturer figure comes from the maker's own manual or setup guide. Sometimes that's a per-weight table. Sometimes it's a rule, like RockShox's "one psi per pound of rider weight", and then the app quotes the rule instead of pretending it was a table.
A Community figure is a published rider or tuner setup I trust, used only where the maker gives nothing for that setting.
A Generic starting point is my own weight-based estimate, used when nothing published exists. It is the least specific number in the app and it is there to bracket from.
If a part has no usable guidance at all, the card says so.
Tuning styles
The app starts every rider at the maker's own figure: the published number for your weight, or the middle of the published range. That is the whole recommendation in version 1, and I want to hear how those plain numbers ride before I offer anything that bends them.
Tuning styles are in beta with a small group. Plush is a little softer, for grip and small-bump comfort. Balanced is the maker's figure. Performance is a little firmer, for support and pop when you're pushing. Your riding style and experience nudge the numbers the same way. Whichever you pick, the app stays inside the range the maker publishes. If you want in, email me from the support page.
What the app won't do
It won't invent a table. If a maker publishes a procedure instead of figures, or nothing at all, that setting stays blank rather than getting a number of mine under their name.
It can't know your frame. Air pressure depends on leverage ratio, and no published table accounts for it, so the pressure is where you start and the sag is what you check.
Clicks
Every click count in the app is out from fully closed. Wind the dial all the way in, then back it out by the number shown. Cane Creek's manuals count the other way, so tap the ⓘ next to a click setting to see which direction that component's dial reads and what the colours mean.
Tyre pressure
Tyre suggestions start from your weight and tyre width, then adjust for casing, inserts, terrain and temperature. I calibrated them against the ENVE, Schwalbe and SRAM calculators. Each one comes with a ±2 psi range and a one-line note on how it was worked out.
Limitations & disclaimer
- These are baselines. They are not professional suspension-tuning advice, and what works depends on your bike, your riding and the conditions.
- Ride within your limits and re-check critical settings before you ride. You use these suggestions at your own risk.
Fox, RockShox, Marzocchi, Öhlins, Manitou, Cane Creek, ENVE, Schwalbe, SRAM, Zipp, CushCore, and all component and product names referenced here are trademarks of their respective owners. Rebound MTB is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of these companies. Manufacturer names are used only to describe the components the app supports. Setup figures are my own reading of publicly available guidance, provided as a starting point.
Questions
Spotted something that looks off, or want a component added? Email support@rebound-mtb.com. I've mis-read a table before and would rather hear about it.