Suspension settings

Brooky · May 8, 2009

I'm after some base suspension settings off anybody in the know. or recommendations of somewhere to take bike in yorkshire area.

2000 rsv. my rear shock(sachs) spring is wound fully down giving 116mm spring length. got conflicting info from aprilia manual and a haynes manual as to what standard setting should be? I presume with preload being set this way everything else will need sorting aswell.

only ridden bike a couple of times in anger and it does feel very stiff at rear, front seems ok but I've never been very clued up when it comes to suspension and feel I ought to learn and get bike sorted.

Brooky · May 9, 2009

Anybody???
c'mon its not like lorenzo asking for rossi's settings.
surely someone knows summat about suspension settings??

Badger · May 9, 2009

forget what it is at just now and start by setting both sag front and rear, static sag should be about 25-30mm on front and 10mm on the rear, unless you are in those sag settings you are wasting your time adjusting damping till you get sag right.
I run mine pretty soft at the front to help turn in, 28mm of sag, if you decrease preload you lower the bike, i run my rear sag at 13mm which is soft to as the roads i ride are well bumpy, running that amount of sag on the rear meant i had to increase the shock length to compensate for reducing the preload on the rear otherwise the rear would have been sitting low and causing understeer.
If you are too heavy you may well need to invest in different fork and rear springs to get the required sag.

If you are going to adjust anything, take note of where it is at just now, so if you make a pigs ear you can resort back to what you have at the moment.

Have a read here

http://aprilia.rsvmille.home.comcast.net/~aprilia.rsvmille/bikes/suspension_guide.htm

Kais in Atherton will help you, Andy White is yer man:thumbup

mutts nuts · May 9, 2009

hey brooky where abouts in south yorks are ya ?

teddy staff · May 9, 2009

have a word with griff aprilia performance tamworth he be your man.
2 much thinking can get u into a lot of trouble

The Lone Ranger · May 9, 2009

teddy staff said:
2 much thinking can get u into a lot of trouble

2 little thinking and you dont realise you should know better.

Sprocker · May 10, 2009

Badger said:
forget what it is at just now and start by setting both sag front and rear, static sag should be about 25-30mm on front and 10mm on the rear, unless you are in those sag settings you are wasting your time adjusting damping till you get sag right.
I run mine pretty soft at the front to help turn in, 28mm of sag, if you decrease preload you lower the bike, i run my rear sag at 13mm which is soft to as the roads i ride are well bumpy, running that amount of sag on the rear meant i had to increase the shock length to compensate for reducing the preload on the rear otherwise the rear would have been sitting low and causing understeer.
If you are too heavy you may well need to invest in different fork and rear springs to get the required sag.

If you are going to adjust anything, take note of where it is at just now, so if you make a pigs ear you can resort back to what you have at the moment.

Have a read here

http://aprilia.rsvmille.home.comcast.net/~aprilia.rsvmille/bikes/suspension_guide.htm

Kais in Atherton will help you, Andy White is yer man:thumbup

teddy staff said:
have a word with griff aprilia performance tamworth he be your man.
2 much thinking can get u into a lot of trouble

Badger I recently did one of fusebox's suspension workshops and he said to set static sag 25-30mm front and back, and you're saying the rear should be 10mm :confused what would the effect of having 25mm rear (what mine is at) compared to your suggested 10mm :dunno

Brooky · May 10, 2009

Cheers for reply's I'll set my sag then take it from there.
Just need piece of mind as you never know what people have done previuosly, and it doesn't feel right

mutts nutts I'm in Rov'rum where abouts are you

mutts nuts · May 10, 2009

hi brooky
i`m just outside doncaster , i`ve also attended one of griffs suspension workshops and still have the info from it , if you wish to i can met up maybe help get some sort of set up that works for ya :eatcorn
if you are up for it pm me :eatcorn

Sprocker · May 10, 2009

How close do you live to Donny mutts:dunno not too far from there myself :thumbup

Brooky · May 10, 2009

mutts nuts said:
hi brooky
i`m just outside doncaster , i`ve also attended one of griffs suspension workshops and still have the info from it , if you wish to i can met up maybe help get some sort of set up that works for ya :eatcorn
if you are up for it pm me :eatcorn

Nice one,:thumbup will pm you

mutts nuts · May 10, 2009

sprocker said:
How close do you live to Donny mutts:dunno not too far from there myself :thumbup

i`m thorne way , u up for a spin some when :biggrin

Badger · May 10, 2009

sprocker said:
Badger I recently did one of fusebox's suspension workshops and he said to set static sag 25-30mm front and back, and you're saying the rear should be 10mm :confused what would the effect of having 25mm rear (what mine is at) compared to your suggested 10mm :dunno

I think you have got confused mate as the 25-30mm for the rear will be loaded sag (with rider on board), static sag (without rider) will be approx. 10mm, my K-Tech sheet recommends for my bike 12-14mm of static sag rear and 20-30mm front static.

This is what i use as a guide

Road Use
Front static sag 20-30mm (mine is 28mm)
Front loaded sag 30-40mm
Rear static 5-10mm (mine is 13mm)
Rear laden 25-40mm

Milles are better running a bit soft

Your bike if it has a static sag of 25mm at the rear will be very soft and the bike will squat to much on acceleration, also the front end will feel very light due to to much weight transfer to the rear, my advice is set your preload to give you 10mm and set the front to 25-30mm of static sag and see how that feels, once you have the sag in the correct ballpark then you can set the damping to suit:thumbup

The Lone Ranger · May 10, 2009

Mine was too soft, so i turned the settings up a bit at a time until it was too hard - then backed them off a little.
Got them pretty close to how i want the bike to feel and now fine tuning them.
Ive found that on my forks even a quarter turn on the compression and rebound makes a difference.

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