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northwind · 13-01-06, 12:53 AM

Mucking about with preload (the adjusters at the top) for stiffness is a mistake anyway- preload is for setting sag, nothing else. If you use it to try and stiffen the suspension, you always impact the handling in other ways. It could be you get more of a benefit than the subsequent disadvantage, but that's just luck.

Springs and oil, emulators if you want to spend more, a front end swap if you want to spend a lot more... It's something that's worth doing, and doing right. £80 or thereabouts really reinvents the bike.

13-01-06, 12:53 AM	#5
northwind Moderator Mega Poster Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In the garage where I belong Posts: 17,083	Mucking about with preload (the adjusters at the top) for stiffness is a mistake anyway- preload is for setting sag, nothing else. If you use it to try and stiffen the suspension, you always impact the handling in other ways. It could be you get more of a benefit than the subsequent disadvantage, but that's just luck. Springs and oil, emulators if you want to spend more, a front end swap if you want to spend a lot more... It's something that's worth doing, and doing right. £80 or thereabouts really reinvents the bike. __________________ "We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day We like what we like, we hate what we hate But we're oh so easily swayed"