underdamped?

[schyawn]

Just wondering if any of you suspension nuts could give me a simple answer as to how a stiff spring coupled with a light shock will wear out the shock more quickly...

In my logic, upon compression, the stiffer spring will resist more travel, and thereby lessen the stress on the shock.

The only thing I can see that is damaging, would be upon rebound, the stiffer spring will push much harder to return to static height, thus working the shock more.

I do understand that this kind of setup will suck terribly for handling, but I just want to know how the shock will wear out quicker. Also, do not comment on lowering (as this is obviously bad for the shock), just a mega stiff spring at stock height.

Me trying to understand, thanks.