ZX10 Shock on a Curvy

Originally Posted by Mr Speirs

You could run the risk of having a significantly softer shock than the curvy standard.

In all honestly what are the chances of that happening!

[Mr Speirs]

Originally Posted by arcdef

In all honestly what are the chances of that happening!

Quite likely, most late GSXR shock are softer than the Curvy's. The pointy's shock it significantly softer than the curvy.

I suppose Plowsie is right if you are a complete tool you may **** it up but if you have some common sense, the right tools and time to research properly you will stand a better chance.

[yorkie_chris]

The SRAD 750 shocks are very soft, but do work pretty well...

Originally Posted by arcdef

In all honestly what are the chances of that happening!

Highly likely, My Busa shock Pre-Load was pretty bad when I first sat on it, really fell under my ****, so I adjusted it

but surely the dampening will be that much stiffer that it needs to softer spring, i cant see how a shock from a zx10 can be worse than that of a curvy.

[yorkie_chris]

What? Stiffer spring generally needs more rebound, I would assume a top flight sports bike designer would be fairly well aware of that before having showa (iirc) create a 3 clicker shock at great expense....

Shadow. You're pretty much on your own with this shock since I don't think anyone has done it yet, call up some suspension tuning places, ask them if they'd tell you what spring the -10R shock has. Compare this to the table Mr speirs posted up earlier.

It looks like it will fit, and you will have lotsa fun with high and low speed damping settings to play with lol.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

What? Stiffer spring generally needs more rebound, I would assume a top flight sports bike designer would be fairly well aware of that before having showa (iirc) create a 3 clicker shock at great expense....

i wasnt questioning the design of it, just trying to get my head around why a sports bike would have such a soft spring.

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by arcdef

i wasnt questioning the design of it, just trying to get my head around why a sports bike would have such a soft spring.

Because the effect of the suspension linkage / swing-arm length / bike weight etc will dictate this. A sports bike's suspension may feel firmer and need more force to move it a given amount, but that is not due only to spring 'strength'.

[yorkie_chris]

Because the spring is only part of the equation, the linkage geometry and weight bias of the chassis all have just as important an effect on the force needed to move the wheel around.

ah k cheers, wont ask such a question again!