ZX10 Shock on a Curvy

Originally Posted by arcdef

ah k cheers, wont ask such a question again!

Now go and sit in the corner and think of what you have done!

[yorkie_chris]

Feel free to ask away... your wording threw me a little.

Above you put "how can a ZX10 shock be worse than curvy"

Good/bad isn't just hard/soft. You could use a shock from a ZX10 (not the zx10r) from late 80s. It would be shoite! It's as much the quality of materials, the complexity of the valving arrangements etc.

A shock from a 125 GP bike would probably be very under specced for the SV, maybe too soft or not enough travel/length. That doesn't mean it's a bad shock, as it's probably had hundreds spent on getting it set up... not a bad shock just not set up for an SV...

Yeah my wording probably showed my confusion in its vagueness! never occurred to me about the linkage and swing arm making an influence but makes sense now.

I feel i might have some searching to find those spring rates , going to put some posts on kwak forums.

EDIT

I think i have found the spring rates on racetech.com #510 so should work. The problem i think i will have now is with fitting it , i didnt apreicate how much of an angle that resoir on the shock is at. Ill post some pics when i recieve the shock.

Do you think i will have to move or alter parts of the bike to make it fit?

[yorkie_chris]

Yeah, cut the front of the battery box out, get rid of the fusebox tray, space the battery up to fit.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Yeah, cut the front of the battery box out, get rid of the fusebox tray, space the battery up to fit.

Your slipping mate, it used to be, 'Lob the fusebox tray at a passing Chav'

[yorkie_chris]

If I remember right theshadow has a dodgy knee and I wouldn't want him to strain it again doing a runner

Originally Posted by Mr Speirs

Do it yourself. I wouldn't trust any mechanic to do
this type of modification work. I researched quite alot before doing mine.

I am still concerned about the spring rate, been trying to find it out but it seems its a secret You could run the risk of having a significantly softer shock than the curvy standard. Maybe you should call Kwakasaki themselves and see if they can tell you the spring rate.

You can get the spring rate if you enter the bike details into
http://www.racetech.com
click top right SEARCH ... and then "search spring rate"

the spring rate is craftily hidden down the page rated in kg/mm.


Most of the info on this forum is on lb/inch with figures 400-530
The page i've put uses kg/mm so just
obviously * 2.54 to get to inches * 22 to get g/lb