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Old 03-10-2023, 05:56 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by Ultramaroon View Post
The system is incomplete. For an accumulator to do any good there must be some hysteresis, like an easily opened check valve to fill and in parallel, a dump valve that flops open below a set pressure delta.
I have been looking at adding a secondary dump for a couple days. I just hadn't decided where it would go.

I am not under any type of delusion that this is a fix. I consider it more a set of suspenders as I have already get dropouts into single digits and this year I will be on more tire and aero. I have to do something at this point.
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