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randomsquid · #31 Post by **randomsquid** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 4:31 pm

Obiwan Kenobi wrote: Why is the OE shocker so bad then? I know my bike has done 20k so will need a refresh anyway, but apart from that?

I had my suspension done at 20k after doing a few thousand miles on it myself and it transformed the bike. The rear linkages were starting to get sticky which wouldn't have helped but the shock managed to be a strange mixture of rock hard squidgyness. Show it a road with ripples and you'd be smacked about like you'd been to visit Mrs Smacky.

HisNibbs · #32 Post by **HisNibbs** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 4:54 pm

Ran mine with the blue shock when I was getting the Ohlins reconditioned. Yes the ride is harsher but I didn't find it as bad as most make out.

Aladinsaneuk · #33 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:31 pm

but keef - you are a stripped down racing snake compared to the rest of us lard arses.....

its the lack of adjustment - it has none to speak of

fatboy · #34 Post by **fatboy** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:48 pm

Squid and Alad have put it in context.....
It is not capable of coping with hard fast cornering, it simply does pogo stick, too slack and too harsh at the same time,throwing you around a bit.
Not nice and not trustworthy

zoidberg · #35 Post by **zoidberg** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 6:19 pm

It's too bouncy when getting a wriggle on. I've had a few head shakes from it. I now have a fully serviced yellow spring sachs unit and linkages ready to go on.

#36 Post by **mangocrazy** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 7:39 pm

randomsquid wrote:the shock managed to be a strange mixture of rock hard squidgyness.

fatboy wrote:too slack and too harsh at the same time

Exactly. I don't know how it does it, whether the spring is rock hard and the damping is soft, or the damping is rock hard and the spring's too soft, but those comments describe it exactly.