supposed to be high of fiddy...holla @ my cell if ya want

 

kims bike is running in the driveway at the moment.... we arn't riding till later on thyough (5 ish) .. at 1 we are going with a friend of ours out in his plane... should be a good time, I'll try to scope out some wheelie spots :YEAH

 

cool,I'm takin off in the next twenty min. or so-by 5 or so it will probly start coolin down fast

 

yup-I'm rusty,need to get my sea legs back but I did make some suspension changes and the front feels much better in twisty stuff now so I did acomplish sumthin today:YEAH :YEAH

 

sooo....nobody ridin,think I'll take mine out for a little more. peace

 

I'd ride if i had a plate and insurance.

 

Kim and I just finished our first ride of the season... the wheelie swich is still "on" :YEAH

 

sorry, was out ridin... its still a bit too chilly to ride down to flint...

 

It's cool man glad to hear your wheeelie switch still werkin:YEAH I actually put some miles on today,sc. to flint ,to corunna back thru durand,gaines,lennon -some good twisties,I like my new suspension settings but the bike sits a little lower now (10mm up front 16mm in rear) and doesnt wheelie as easy in 3rd,I actually have to bounce it pretty good now .or maybe I just have to get more used to it

 

All is well, it's supposed to be up near 60 today and tomorrow :YEAH

 

I think I feel a cold coming on... *cough *cough*

 

You changed the spring pre load settings? So was the spring pre load was wrong for your weight before? Spring sag is usually close to 10mm from rider to no rider height.

Jeff

 

I basicly screwed around w/ everything until I was happy, seems like when ya do sumthin wrong you can feel it big time but when you making improvents it's alot more subtle. got 12mm fork tube showing above the tree,18mm of thread showing on rear shock then adj. comp.&rebound damping. I know what your sayin, I cant acurately get sag mesurement by myself though feels & handles much better where I got it though:YEAH the front reminds me of my R1 now-words-ummm nimble,flickable..hard to describe but you know what I mean the R1 had that narrow arrow like feelin in the front,I cant describe it well....

 

The numbers don't mean that is the actual movement atleast in the rear. The reason it feels more nimble is because you increased the amount of weight on the front tire. This helps the bikes turn in speed and can also make the bike feel more stable at higher speeds. Negative effects I can't remember then off the top of my head but I think braking is one of them. I was only lowering my bike for the dragstrip 20mm by sliding the fork tube up the triple tree.

The thing that I do first is set my front and rear ride height/sag correctly to specs and then use the compression and rebound on the shock and forks to get the bike to act how I want it to. I have lowered my fork tubes in the triple tree in order to help with high speed stablity but only about 5mm.


Jeff

 

Kim and I made it out for 40 miles yesterday:YEAH ... anyone else take advantage of the good weather?

 

yep, sounds like you know what your doin, I dont have a way to get sag mesurements, maybe I,ll have someone mess around w/ it w/ me over the summer.but for now it feels pretty good I'm 5'8 and 180 lbs. maybe I can poke around the net and see what other guys my size have done to theirs....

 

I proly got about 30 miles, I saw a sherrif out in the middle no effin where then I was hittin some bent roads and (kinda pushin it) and lost the front (scary) so I figured just wasnt ment to be ...went home and hang out w/ my doughter:YEAH I'm due for a new set of tires I think a set of michlens are in order

 

I did get out for a ride on Tuesday damn didn't realize how much I missed riding over the winter. I was going to do some work on my bike before really riding it this year but after that ride F it. Now if this weather just would make its mind up so we can all ride together.

Jeff