I've just up-graded my forks to rock shox, Reba Race 07, can some one tell me what the flood gate dial (with the plus sign) on top of the compression dial does and how will it effect the ride

Aparently - I asked a week or so ago - it sets the force required to let the fork move (like pro-pedal I guess).

I am sure someone will chip in with a much more accurate answer.

cheers
i will be checking it out on my next ride to see what it does and how it feels etc

when the motion control is locked out, you'll get 20mm of free travel, then after that, the fork will sorta hit a stop, and the floodgate lets you choose how easily that stop will give way, thus letting you have full travel again

Ta very much,
just had a fiddle with it (the fork that is!)and sussed it out

Just thought - no relation (like married) to Mel(anie) by perchance are you Mark?

something may be worth noting is it's purpose.

the way i take it, is that you have it locked out to normal pedalling, but give way to when you hit a bump or land a drop

The nice thing about it is that you can decide the impact level needed to open the floodgate and let the fork move.
I'm pretty big and use a Revolution with poploc. I lock the fork if I want to give it some. E.g get out of the saddle and sprint.
I have adjusted the floodgate so that it will stay almost locked but will allow the fork to give if I hit a root etc.
You could also set it with a less threshold (the force needed to open the floodgate) and use it as a sort of pro pedal.
Great stuff for a £200 ish fork.