Adding volume spacers will make the final part of the suspension stroke firmer, requiring more force to bottom out.

For a more progressive spring rate you need to add volume spacers (or remove if you are not using enough travel).

As for whether or not it is an issue, this is my first FS bike, so I am not really sure how a hard bottom out would feel. Forks and shocks are expensive, potentially complicated, sometimes confusing, and easy to get wrong.

I run 30 percent sag and can't seem to bottom out the bike as the dw ramps up sharply at the end. Does this mean im riding on to rough Knowing how to set up MTB suspension is almost as important as knowing how to pick a line or take a corner. Bottoming out a handful of times is fine but any more and you need a higher spring rate Bottoming out on a trail - might be below average, depends on the trail, your weight, fork setup, etc.

My fork has 100mm of travel and at the end of my rides the rubber ring on my fork shows that I fully compressed. This track drops down from the top near The Mail Trail to the bottom of the hill. If you feel that you are bottoming out your suspension too frequently, despite running the correct air-spring pressure What is bottoming out? I have a cove peeler (single pivot) and both the shock (2007 DHX 5) and the forks (2007 Fox 40R) seem to be too linear for my liking.

Travel is simply the maximum distance that either the front or rear suspension of the Mountain Bike can compress, when absorbing force, before bottoming out.

Harsh bottom out launching you OTB on a 1 inch root - no bueno. The tire does rub the cable guide at times. The o ring never comes off. The lower amount of travel the lower amount of force absorbed. Fork zazen is usually fork doing its thing, you doing your thing, and using the travel without harsh bucking or having to ride like boomin' granny to stay on the bike. An older mountain bike may have an 80mm fork, which is hard to find now. Bottoming out happens when you reach the end of your suspension travel. The higher the travel the more force the suspension can comfortably absorb. It’s easy to get discouraged by mountain bike suspension. Not sure how true that is, but bottoming out is not going to damage anything.
But if it's happening too much, your suspension is set up too soft, and if it never happens, your suspension is too stiff.

Assuming you’ve followed the series, your suspension should be pretty well dialed, leaving one big question: How often should you be bottoming out? Bottoming out your fork is a topic that many people ask about. In this post I will go through some popular questions about bottoming out your suspension and what you can do to prevent it.

What is “Travel” on a Mountain Bike?
I am 130lbs and

BikeRadar trail-botherer Jon Woodhouse … And I really don't know how bad it is to repeatedly bottom a shock out, but I figured that it could not be good for it. This is the final installment in our Suspension Setup Series, and it’s a fairly simple recap to the in depth process of properly setting up your mountain bike’s fork and shock.

I've heard claims that you should be bottoming out your suspension several times a ride.

Mountain bike fork bottom out.

However, there’s a lot of simple tuning and customization that can be done at home, inexpensively, that will make a huge difference in how your mountain bike suspension performs. I am just comparing to how bottoming a fork out feels. Travel: Many bike frames are designed to work with a suspension fork featuring a specific amount of travel. The amount of travel will change the handling characteristics of the bike.
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