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Old Oct 9, 2003 | 09:54 AM
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help me with a stoppee

can someone help me with stoppees I've stiffen the front forks and now the front tire locks up and no stoppee can someone help
Old Oct 9, 2003 | 10:12 AM
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maybe your grabbin the brake too hard.
Load the forks ....then gradualy increase pressure. Brake hard, just not too hard. Make sure your front tire is warm also. It could be skidding cause its cold. Good luck.
Old Oct 9, 2003 | 10:16 AM
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Your tire will lock up if your forks are too tight. Set your forks back to stock settings. I always recomend learning by getting the bike up to 25-30mph and pull the brakes hard enough to come to a realy hard stop and keep doing this from the same speed, each time pulling the brakes a little harder. Like Rich said you need to decompress the forks first and then apply just a little more pressure on the brakes from there. You will begin to feel the rear end of the bike getting lighter and lighter and then there you go it will start to come up.
Old Oct 9, 2003 | 10:27 AM
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so.. are you saying you could do them before you changed your fork settings?
Old Oct 9, 2003 | 02:31 PM
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stiffer forks make it harder to endo...
Old Oct 9, 2003 | 09:12 PM
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set up

first thing is get a good tire on your bike i always run a pilot sport never locked up on me 2nd you want the forks stiffer that stock if there not when you grab the break the front will dive then spring back causing tank slappers you want them to compress and stay compressed the whole time so tighten up your compression and slow down the rebound also run a lower pressure in the front tire 25-28psi this will hook up and keep you stable
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oh yeah let me tell u man, doing an endo is awsome. I was playing around and when I did endo the first time ( not very first time) but the front tire skid and I decided to give it another try...

damn I usually can do endos like at 3 maybe 4 ft high.. this time I came up too damn high and I felt my *** slidding.My grotch had hit the tank damn hard and I fell over. My bike came down and fell on it's side. Im on the ground in so much pain holding my grotch. It's been a week already and still sore down there.

Now I would image how painful it would be if guys were doing endos and their nuts were squashed by their tank. I wanted to know do guys ridingo on a suzuki doing endos crush their nuts ?


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Old Oct 10, 2003 | 12:02 PM
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Re: set up

Originally posted by Joe Brown
first thing is get a good tire on your bike i always run a pilot sport never locked up on me 2nd you want the forks stiffer that stock if there not when you grab the break the front will dive then spring back causing tank slappers you want them to compress and stay compressed the whole time so tighten up your compression and slow down the rebound also run a lower pressure in the front tire 25-28psi this will hook up and keep you stable
preach on brother




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