camera56
Well-known member
This is sort of a follow up to the now lengthy thread on my fragged 06. Some information and a question.
I recently had the following installed: Hyperpro front springs and oil (progressive wind) and super duper rear unit with external reservoir and high and low speed compression damping (type 468). Rear shock was built to spec and springs were speced to me. Installed by dealer to hyperpro specs. Dealer set sag. Though i didn't do more than eyeball the sag prior to the fateful ride, my butt said it was right if not a bit stiff in back.
Prior to riding, i reset all the compression and rebound damping on both ends to make sure they were set to spec. Front forks were preloaded to two rings and compression and rebound were set roughly mid way (12 and 12 clicks). Preliminary bounce test on front felt good on rebound.
Rear was set as follows. Compression (Low 16 clicks from open; high 12 from open) out of 30 clicks, rebound 15 clicks from open (no damping) out of 48 clicks. Hyperpro recommends "as little compression damping as possible" with no more than 10 clicks different on the low/high. Hyperpro specified 3-5 clicks of rebound which seemed way low to me given the 48 clicks so I upped it. Again, i did the bounce test and the rebound didn't seem excessively fast to me but I confess I didn't do this a click at a time.
So after all that, I wonder if the suspension set up might have played a roll in my low speed low side slide which occurred, as nearly as i can recall as follows:
Shifted weight well inside the centerline of bike with counter pressure to hold it up.
Look through turn and release bars
Bike flopped in as I
Rolled on the throttle.
Rear tire began to slide out from under me and the bike went down.
Smooth pavement
Thoughts?
I recently had the following installed: Hyperpro front springs and oil (progressive wind) and super duper rear unit with external reservoir and high and low speed compression damping (type 468). Rear shock was built to spec and springs were speced to me. Installed by dealer to hyperpro specs. Dealer set sag. Though i didn't do more than eyeball the sag prior to the fateful ride, my butt said it was right if not a bit stiff in back.
Prior to riding, i reset all the compression and rebound damping on both ends to make sure they were set to spec. Front forks were preloaded to two rings and compression and rebound were set roughly mid way (12 and 12 clicks). Preliminary bounce test on front felt good on rebound.
Rear was set as follows. Compression (Low 16 clicks from open; high 12 from open) out of 30 clicks, rebound 15 clicks from open (no damping) out of 48 clicks. Hyperpro recommends "as little compression damping as possible" with no more than 10 clicks different on the low/high. Hyperpro specified 3-5 clicks of rebound which seemed way low to me given the 48 clicks so I upped it. Again, i did the bounce test and the rebound didn't seem excessively fast to me but I confess I didn't do this a click at a time.
So after all that, I wonder if the suspension set up might have played a roll in my low speed low side slide which occurred, as nearly as i can recall as follows:
Shifted weight well inside the centerline of bike with counter pressure to hold it up.
Look through turn and release bars
Bike flopped in as I
Rolled on the throttle.
Rear tire began to slide out from under me and the bike went down.
Smooth pavement
Thoughts?
