Basically a preference thing but in a nutshell
Small bore shocks will make the car feel more 'alive' and agressive at the expense of small ripple complience and large jump landing absorbsion.
Big bores will make the car feel less alive and calmer and will be better over small bumps and large jump landings at the expense of a little bit of nimbleness in fast direction changes.
I personally think that it is only the F1 drivers out there that will gain on a true off-road surface with small bores where as the rest of us will have a safer car on big bores.
On smooth surfaces like indoor tracks the lines blur a lot, especially if it's tight and technical.
As a rule of thumb I run small bores on my DB2 indoors and big bores on everything else.
Hope that helps.
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