I noticed a little bit of difference. Made my shocks way too springy. Go with the R1's ASAP and you'll thank yourself.

 

I don't think there is any difference in the '02 and '03 and mine sags quit a bit more when let all the way out as it does in. Don't know, maybe there is a spring difference.

 

I thought the same thing, not much difference at all. I was hopiing that it would be noticable, but ended up adjusting almost all the way down. Is there a way to change the springs or oil or something like that or are we stuck changing the whole shock.

 

I did notice slight differences between the settings on my bike - but they were only minor. If the spring pre-load is too high it will give you a bouncy ride. If the spring prelaod is too light the suspension will tend to wallow. The preload in the rear will also effect the ride height and damping characteristics (even in the front by placing more load on the front end) and should be balanced for your weight/load.

If the you like the ride height, but do not like the damping, you can chage the oil height or oil viscosity (must use oil designed specifically for suspension). Raising the oil height will stiffen the suspensionn in the last stages (inch or two) of travel. A thicker viscosity will tend to stiffen the damping a little throughout the entire range. Messing with the oil will not effect the ride height though.

 

How do you add oil to the shock?
Is that tough?

 

I want to lower the front, since I've lowered the back. I'm afraid that if I raise the fork tubes at all in the triple trees, that my front fender will bottom out on the triple tree. I go through speed bumps everyday.(sucks!)

My whole intention is keeping the shock from bottoming out. Will adding oil help this?

 

Serrata--you keep refering to shock, but I am guessing that you wish to stiffen the front...If you are going to lower the front and you wish it not to bottom on the triple t you are first going to have to raise the oil level...this effects the last couple of inches of travel and makes the forks stiffen quicker....it is an easy process but we need to find out the maximum hight...after doing so, if it stiff bottoms, you can tighten the preload, but this will effect the rebound (not good)...the only way to compensate this is to go to a thicker viscosity oil...we need to investigate that too....I will chek on it in the manual...I suspect that maxing out the oil level height alone will do the trick.......