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Originally Posted by Mark_h
Doubtless about to get massively flamed for this but I was talking to a suspension guru a few years ago about the standard GSX-R mod and his advice was not to do it. He said that although it will feel great initially they are not designed to take the heat you get from the rear exhaust of the SV so they tend to degrade real fast so his recommendation was to get something designed for a v-twin rather than something designed to run cooler.
He gave mine a good twiddling a fair few yeas ago which transformed it over how it was set when I got it but at the time he said the pre-load was pretty much spot-on both ends and it just needed some damping adjustments. I've not touched the front since but the rear's been all over the place but has since been pretty much put back to where he had it with just a bit less damping as it kept leaping off bumps and spinning up too easy.
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I was talking about having your SV Thou shock rebuilt by one of those 2 companies, should be about £100-ish pounds and it'll be the same shock, but as it was when it was new.
With the fork oil being 20-40,000 miles old I'd do that as well
Jambo
Edit, I've re-read my statement and can see where the confusion's come from, what I was saying was not to just buy a 2nd hand shock from another bike from ebay as you've no way of telling how old that is in terms of miles