shanti
Race Dog
- Joined
- Jan 27, 2009
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- 1,185
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- Location
- Harkerville Knysna
- Bike
- Honda CRF-1000L Africa Twin
Greetings all .
Been trying to figure out the various suspension settings for my new bike .
Looking at the manual that the bike came with under each adjustment (preload , damping and compression ) the book says use the adjuster to suit load and road surface .
Now coming from bikes where I have not been faced with these options , what am I looking at ?
As the title says some help for this dummie in plain english would be most appreciated .
Firstly what does each adjustment actually do in regards to load and road surface ?
Secondly a real world situation or a few examples would be great .
For instance lets take my example - I am 74kg - riding to work and back on tar roads what would be optimal settings ? ( for lack of a start point lets make this the start point , adjustments from here up and down )
- If I add a pillion where would I look at adjusting - front and back -preload ,damping ,compression ( road riding ) ? lets call the pillion 60kg
- If I intend to do dirt riding without pillion what adjustments could I make from my original road riding position ?
- again the above but with a pillion
- lastly pillion with +30kg camping and gear - road and dirt
Possibly from here one could include adjustments for more technical terrain - rocks , soft sand etc
Thanks and happy riding
Been trying to figure out the various suspension settings for my new bike .
Looking at the manual that the bike came with under each adjustment (preload , damping and compression ) the book says use the adjuster to suit load and road surface .
Now coming from bikes where I have not been faced with these options , what am I looking at ?
As the title says some help for this dummie in plain english would be most appreciated .
Firstly what does each adjustment actually do in regards to load and road surface ?
Secondly a real world situation or a few examples would be great .
For instance lets take my example - I am 74kg - riding to work and back on tar roads what would be optimal settings ? ( for lack of a start point lets make this the start point , adjustments from here up and down )
- If I add a pillion where would I look at adjusting - front and back -preload ,damping ,compression ( road riding ) ? lets call the pillion 60kg
- If I intend to do dirt riding without pillion what adjustments could I make from my original road riding position ?
- again the above but with a pillion
- lastly pillion with +30kg camping and gear - road and dirt
Possibly from here one could include adjustments for more technical terrain - rocks , soft sand etc
Thanks and happy riding
