"There was a softride hack back in the day (not saying it was a great system or that it was a bad system ...it was what it was. ) some folks would setup a cable with a small turnbuckle (sort of like a backwards slingshot bike) to preload the beam to tune (firm u) the response.it was a hack b/c you had to sort of go back and forth with unloaded saddle height then deal with the delta from the preload"