I guess she is probably 140 pounds, at that weight her preload should be optimal for setting her sag without any need to change springs
Anyone in gta do suspension setups?
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*shifty eyes* so it's optimal then...
Baseline suspension setups usually run $50ish.
That's debatable. John is very good, but so are several others.
Z1, Pro6 and Riders Choice all have a lot of racing experience.
Corndog is arguably one of the best suspension tuners in North America. If all you're doing is a baseline setup, his expertise would be overkill.
Horsepoop. Compression and rebound damping setup is just as important as spring rates and sag.
How do you figure?
I would second John, he use to be one of the suspension mechanics for team Yamaha. Also he lives right outside of Buckhorn, which is a good 35 mins from Lakefield. I've gone to him a number of times and have always had great service.
Yea thanks for the breaking news, you really think she needs more than setting her Sag for riding twin rivers?
Just trying to save her some unnecessary money
Whatever
I was under the impression that if you lowered a bike you would have to increase pre-load to help prevent the bike from bottoming out.
Lowering it 1" isn't too severe. If the bike is slammed and hard parts start hitting things before the suspension bottoms out then yes, I agree. I doubt that would be an issue with it only being lowered 1" though.
In my opinion, setting sag without any damping baseline setup is hardly worth doing at all.
On a lot of OEM forks and shocks, the damping adjustments are largely cosmetic ... the manufacturer has selected a narrow range that they deem to be the allowable max and min. I just had a 2009 R1 with all stock suspension here, and changing the setting of the rear rebound adjuster to maximum made NO noticeable difference from the stock setting, which IMO is not quite enough. Caboose, what do you think about the stock steering damper that came on your 2010 ZX10R ... (I thought so)
Agreed. Not sure why you gotta call horsepoop, but whatever. (not interested in an explanation btw - this ain't about you anyways)
Xtina - can't tell for sure what you're riding, but you can also look for an owner's manual for your bike (usually able to find these for free online with a bit of "E-digging" ... or perhaps you already have one?) and use that as a guide if you are comfortable with making adjustments yourself. Again, IF you are after establishing a baseline set up with existing components.
I had a pair of Soupy lowering links too, but decided to stop using them because of what they did to the handling. has the front been lowered an equal amount.
Having the suspension properly set up by an expert gives great peace of mind, and road confidence
Having the suspension properly set up by an expert gives great peace of mind, and road confidence
redridernl
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Is the ability to drag knee a good indicator of a properly set up suspension? For $40 - $60 you can have someone who knows what they're doing set everything up. It's a no brainer, isn't it?
N3WMAN
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As brian already said, the stock suspension compression/rebound adjusted on most bikes are pretty useless. So if you want to pay someone $50 to do sag and turn compression to max, be my guest. For street riding, I think it's a waste of money.
redridernl
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Maybe if you're too heavy for the stock suspension I guess. I can feel the damping changes. Suspension and brakes are really the only useful things to adjust/upgrade. People waste all kinds of money on silly things like exhausts. Even if you don't feel much of a difference at least you know that it isn't out of whack. For me, it's definitely worth the cost to have a pro check it out.
To each their own.
To each their own.
I would disagree.
That's what was done to my Busa, before I knew any better, and the effect was to make it unsafe on anything less than a perfectly flat, smooth road.
I was almost tossed off the bike in a sweeper near Upper Big Chute (choppy road) and the ramp from DVP north to 401 east (two largish bumps at the expansion joints in quick succession). I could also feel my front or rear tires "skip" going around corners on small rural roads during the parade ride to Aminals BBQ.
The front also bottomed out under heavy braking going into corners at Deals Gap with the stock suspension
(yeah, yeah, I know: it's a Busa...)
For the amount it costs, it's worth having the suspension set up right...provided that doesn't involve just blindly turning damping up to the max.
Of all the mod's out there, having the suspension properly set up offers the best bang for the buck. My suggestion is to see John Sharrard at Accelerated Technologies, especially if you want the bike lowered properly.
And for the newb's: just because a set-up works for one person, does not mean that it will work just as well for another person. Ideally, you want to set up the bike for you.
