Recomendations on fork oil level please
 

ive got 80N hagon springs due to go in to standard forks on 99 650s tomorrow.
also got 15w oil and i weigh with gear on about 11.4 stone.
how much oil do i want going in each leg please, any suspension gurus out there?

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What brand and line of 15w oil have you got?

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This is Suzuki standard for a Pointy, sure someone will be along soon to say if Curvy is the same or not. Start at the standard air gap then see how it feels from there.

Front fork oil capacity (each leg) :
490 ml (16.56/17.25 US/Imp oz) for SV650
488 ml (16 .49/17.18 US/Imp oz) for SV650S

Fork oil level :
92 mm (3 .62 in) for SV650
94 mm (3.70 in) for SV650S

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synthetic rock oil 15w

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How have you got 80N hagons, have they started making linears?

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? No idea, I went on website, and from dropdown menus I selected 80n for sv650, I thought they were progressive thou? Its all new to me. I'm now assuming that u don't get different progressive springs and me ticking the 80N box was a waste of a click of a button

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You can get any progressive spring you want if you get them custom wound, AFAIK hagon only make a one size fits all option.

But a progressive spring would not have a N/mm number, it would have a range or a curve of N/mm numbers compared to it's displacement

Not that it makes bugger all difference. Fire the 15W in, 110mm air gap.

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125mm air gap on curvy.

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ill go with you on that, just done a bit of research on springs and n/m and learnt that i now know even less then i thought lol.
cheers.

110mm air gap it is

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Feel free to go with zadars suggestion also, he knows better than me.