This is the best way i can describe it: when I am riding and hit some bumps in the road,, it seems to want tokick the bike back up at me, I have hit some roads around me where it has a little hump and it has actually threw me up off the seat, and to be honest, I never payed attention to see if it was bottoming out, how would I tell, and I have a progressive air pump for putting air in the shocks and taking it out.