All you guys (Including Tim) should invest in Andrew Trevitt's "Sportbike Suspension Tuning". It's a wealth of information and the best $30 you'll ever spend if you are truely interested in learning about how your suspension functions as well as how to improve your set up. Best suspension book I have ever read. Andrew's illustrations simplifies complicated issues making them easy to grasp.
None of us will ever become a suspension guru as suspension tuning is an art well beyond the reach of us mere mortals. But,,,,, the more we learn the more capable we become at setting up what we have.
Dave Moss is a wonderful source of information as well. I have attended his suspension clinics and the man is phenomenal at reading tires and adjusting suspension accordingly. Tim's front tire from the Bash tells me he has issues with suspension. Solving those issues takes trial and error to resolve for most of us where Dave Moss can usually solve them quite readily.
After reading Andrew's book a few times, you'll feel pretty comfortable at twidling with your knobs knowing you aren't going to get yourself into serious trouble. If you have no suspension experience, it's by far better to have a trackday vendor set your base line so you have a good foundation to start with. With a baseline set properly you can always go back to those settings and start over if you get in over your head. Plus, the suspension vendor can tell you if you require different springs simply by the relationship between the free sag and rider sag.
Your suspensions job "First and foremost" is to keep your tires in proper contact with the pavement.
Keep in mind there is no magical suspension setting that works for everyone. Different talent levels require different suspension settings depending on the application. Track settings are not good street settings. Your buddies settings who is much farther advanced than you may not work very well for you. Bikes set up for super fast riding don't ride for beans at slow speeds. Bikes raised in the rear to make high speed cornering more agressive can be a real problem at slower speeds by wanting to dive off the inside of corners at slower speeds.
IMO if you want to ride fast, it's all about suspension, suspension, suspension!
heard the same thing on them, non-oem "can" be ok without leaks, not exactly what we want to hear. Good luck getting her back on the road, I'll load the flathead in the trunk and do some tests this week. Keep me posted on what you find Six, appreciate the info. Macon454, interested in the same question, how much do you weigh? 180 w/o gear here.
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