Rebound Damping

Hi guys & girls

I'm new here, had my Tuono 1000R (2008) for a little over a year now. Didn't use it much last year at all and did a few things to it and just put some new boots on it for this year because I didn't know how old the tyres were when I bought it and they were a mismatched pair so had zero confidence in them.

It's my first bike after a 14 year sabbatical, and I decided to go with Continental Road Attack 4's, mainly because of all the good things I have read about them, plus I used to use the original Road Attacks years ago on both my SV and my GSXR and loved them. They really do inspire confidence (although that's not hard after having old mismatched rubber on them)

Anyhow, I'm rambling. I've now scrubbed my new tyres in and have ~200 mile on them and I can see the wear on the tread is causing a ridge on the leading edge. Now I know this can be a sign of needing to alter the suspension settings, so I did a little reading and basically my rebound damping is too slow. Now, I know how to adjust the rebound damping - but what I do not know is which way?? Is it anti clockwise that I need to speed it up? This seems to be lurking in my memory from years ago but I cannot seem to find much info on it other than increasing or decreasing - but is increasing speeding it up or slowing it? In my mind, increasing is slowing it, but I'm not certain.
Also, how much is it out? Seems as though it would be hard to dial right a little at a time to then wait and see if the tyres start to wear differently Is there an easy way to find the right setting?

So if anyone can cast a little light on this for me please I would be very grateful.

Many thanks
Cheers
Steve

Most of my Aprilia's do that behaviour to so sort of degree... I would suggest start looking at tyre pressures first... assuming you're riding road, i run 34 psi (cold) in the rear and 36 pis (cold) in the front... and get good grip and tyre life.. the bike does have a lot of torque, so acceleration on any edge can go a bit like that.. if it was a cornering suspension issue i would tend to expect to see bad tyre behaviour on the flat surfaces. Conti's are a great tyre and quite soft and grippy which is great.. but does lead to some abnormal wear.

Of course Track Temps are much much lower pressure... usually 28 psi (hot) out of the blankets rear and 34 psi hot out of the blankets front.

** Note - i live in Australia and generally quite warm, be mindful of tyre pressures and local temps... if its really cold (single figures) perhaps a couple of psi higher in the rear..

Hi Phillbyracer

Thanks for the response. Yes, I'm running 32 front and 36 rear (both cold). I recall years ago when I used to ride bikes year round I would tweak my suspension when I saw tyre wear like this. I've found a good article that matches what I could vaguely remember (HERE) - Skip to Suspension Related Tyre Wear.
I'm going to unwind the rebound damping a little to speed it up and see what difference it makes.
As you mention with pressures, I have noted that increasing the pressure creates wear on the opposite side of the tread, but I am not a fan of the cornering feedback and harsh ride this delivers so hopefully a little suspension tuning will sort this and perhaps give a better ride too.