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12-06-07, 02:39 PM

Greetings one and all,

I've been following the various discussions on suspension for the SV with some interest, and for better or worse am going down the route of WP proline progressive fork springs + 20W oil with a '06 ZX10 rear shock (thanks to weazelz for the shock) as I can't justify the expense for much else and in all honesty probably wouldn't ever need it. The only bit I was still scratching my head about was where to start from with the shock settings, presuming that whoever had it before me has tweaked and twiddled furiously to set it up for themselves. I found this link through visordown,
http://www.sportrider.com/tech/suspension/
and there's a pretty complete section on their recommended settings for each model / year. Bearing in mind that these settings are intended for a shock in it's original application and not when fitted to an SV, it seemed to me they would be as good a place to start from as any for my tweaking and twiddling. I guess anyone thinking of doing the "GSXR shock on a pointy" mod could find some baseline settings here too.

12-06-07, 02:39 PM	#1
charlie13 Guest Posts: n/a	yet more stuff on suspension Greetings one and all, I've been following the various discussions on suspension for the SV with some interest, and for better or worse am going down the route of WP proline progressive fork springs + 20W oil with a '06 ZX10 rear shock (thanks to weazelz for the shock) as I can't justify the expense for much else and in all honesty probably wouldn't ever need it. The only bit I was still scratching my head about was where to start from with the shock settings, presuming that whoever had it before me has tweaked and twiddled furiously to set it up for themselves. I found this link through visordown, http://www.sportrider.com/tech/suspension/ and there's a pretty complete section on their recommended settings for each model / year. Bearing in mind that these settings are intended for a shock in it's original application and not when fitted to an SV, it seemed to me they would be as good a place to start from as any for my tweaking and twiddling. I guess anyone thinking of doing the "GSXR shock on a pointy" mod could find some baseline settings here too.