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I had wondered if my 11/16th of an inch of fork rise would be a problem. I recall reading that someone had his up 3/4" but backed it off due to some unremembered-by-me problem.
So, now that I've adjusted sag to keep my front end from lifting, what's going to happen when I drop the forks in the TTs?
Assuming there is another avenue... how does one reduce pre-load in these forks (and by how much)? Is there a spacer or do I snip some spring?
Rick
So, now that I've adjusted sag to keep my front end from lifting, what's going to happen when I drop the forks in the TTs?
Assuming there is another avenue... how does one reduce pre-load in these forks (and by how much)? Is there a spacer or do I snip some spring?
Rick
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Yes and yes you can. If you cut the spring down it will increase the rate by some.AZRickD wrote:Is there a spacer or do I snip some spring?
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Lowering the forks inceases the caster angle which stabilizes the front. I found after my conversion that the 7/8" all the way up was terrible. 5/8" helped and I ran it for a while. Went to 1/2" just to try and the headshake was gone and it felt very stable. It is a quick and logical tuning step.
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I didn't bother to move the forks down. I did reduce a little bit of rear shock spring pre-load though.
I had been riding some fairly untechnical stuff recently and then last week got tangled up with some B and A riders who took me on a 50 mile hell ride through the desert. Everything was fine except on the longer technical hill climbs. The back end was bouncing around like crazy causing me to get off line. After completing one hill climb I decided to soften up the compression and rebound on the shock. I didn't have another problem.
I've also taken my fork clickers all the way soft as well.
As for that wobble at 75 mph... it seems to be less now, so I just press on both handle bars and let my arms do the dampening for the remainder.
Rick
I had been riding some fairly untechnical stuff recently and then last week got tangled up with some B and A riders who took me on a 50 mile hell ride through the desert. Everything was fine except on the longer technical hill climbs. The back end was bouncing around like crazy causing me to get off line. After completing one hill climb I decided to soften up the compression and rebound on the shock. I didn't have another problem.
I've also taken my fork clickers all the way soft as well.
As for that wobble at 75 mph... it seems to be less now, so I just press on both handle bars and let my arms do the dampening for the remainder.
Rick
I done KX-ed QuailChaser's KDX220R