SV650 Trackbike

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Few mods like rebound stack to match spring and longer bottom clevis?

Have you perchance got a dyno chart handy of ohlins as it comes?

The valving tends to remain the same. Its more different body and rod the mods that we do.

I can only pull off spec cards not dyno sheets.

[yorkie_chris]

Ah Ok, thought you might have some kicking around.

[fastdruid]

Is it worth the longer bottom clevis or just go for shorter dog bones?

Druid

Originally Posted by fastdruid

Is it worth the longer bottom clevis or just go for shorter dog bones?

Druid

What shock are you running?. The shorter linkage works well on the SV but isnt minitwin legal.

[fastdruid]

Originally Posted by SV650Racer

What shock are you running?. The shorter linkage works well on the SV but isnt minitwin legal.

Ohlins. Its a track bike (GSXR forks) rather than a mini-twin so not concerned about legality.



Druid

If your running the Ohlins where do you have the ride height adjustment set to?. Its best to keep the weight distribution on the geometry pretty flat as possible ie 50/50 so if your not running max ride height, use that setting first. Its also more preferable to run the ride height up with the forks at the stock height. The carbed bike also does run well with the shorter linkage and make adjustments on the ride height to suit, IE you may not want to run it on max if your running the dog bones.

Hope that makes sense, am typing in between sorting new race bike orders!

[fastdruid]

Originally Posted by SV650Racer

If your running the Ohlins where do you have the ride height adjustment set to?. Its best to keep the weight distribution on the geometry pretty flat as possible ie 50/50 so if your not running max ride height, use that setting first. Its also more preferable to run the ride height up with the forks at the stock height. The carbed bike also does run well with the shorter linkage and make adjustments on the ride height to suit, IE you may not want to run it on max if your running the dog bones.

Hope that makes sense, am typing in between sorting new race bike orders!

I was running a '96 GSXR750 shock with GSXR1300 forks, gave it about +1" rear -0.5" front, now with the ohlins set currently to about this
which is pretty low.
+1" rear on the dogbones and going for a GSXR600K8 frontend.

Annoyingly I've only been out on it for <1 trackday since fitting the ohlins and not had time to play to set it up, first time out did a few sessions in the damp, went to adjust the ride height and discovered this broken bush!


Then next trackday managed 1/3 of a day on the NC35, 1/3 day on the SV, binned the NC35 and broke my collarbone. Bah.

Thanks

Druid

AAGH! Not good. Hope your healing or healed now.

[fastdruid]

Originally Posted by SV650Racer

AAGH! Not good. Hope your healing or healed now.

Yep all better now, well apart from now having a step in my collarbone.

A momento of cadwell park:


Druid

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by SV650Racer

The carbed bike also does run well with the shorter linkage and make adjustments on the ride height to suit, IE you may not want to run it on max if your running the dog bones.

I have not done the sums on the linkage. Does this make it more linear?