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Hi guys

Going for the first proper rideout tomorrow, so will probably looking to tweak the settings as I go along to get it more suited to me.

My first impressions at the moment are the front is okay, but I find the rear very harsh with very little travel...

I'm reasonably (only reasonably) up on suspension adjustment from my mountain bike days, and appreciate compression, rebound and preload adjustment and what it does.

So, I guess the two questions would be how exactly do I go about tweaking front and rear settings? I'm 13 stone, and the bike has the standard blue spring Sachs shock.

Thanks for any advice peeps

hornetrider wrote:Hi guys

Going for the first proper rideout tomorrow, so will probably looking to tweak the settings as I go along to get it more suited to me.

My first impressions at the moment are the front is okay, but I find the rear very harsh with very little travel...

I'm reasonably (only reasonably) up on suspension adjustment from my mountain bike days, and appreciate compression, rebound and preload adjustment and what it does.

So, I guess the two questions would be how exactly do I go about tweaking front and rear settings? I'm 13 stone, and the bike has the standard blue spring Sachs shock.

Thanks for any advice peeps

Have a look at Kens site......

http://www.geocities.com/sl_mille/suspension.html

Found his settings were as good as you can get for a 13 stoner. Problem is, you cant make a silk purse out of a pigs ear so ultimately, the only good solution is to scrap the crap rear shock.

Put an Ohlins on mine and I still cant get over what a difference it made. So much so, I have fitted Ohlins forks as well and the bikes totally transformed.

I know I keep saying this, but just setting your static sag will at least get things on a base from which you can tweak & twiddle.

Without the sag being set correctly for your weight, you have no idea what your adjustments are actually doing to the bike.

The first thing every single racer will do after having suspension serviced or replaced will be to re-set the sag from clubman to MotoGP.

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