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I dont think adjusting your shock will have much, if any effect on your turning left vs right.

As far as the shock, if you're that concerned about having it on the perfect setting, why not try to find someone on a gizzer forum who is your wieght and has it adjusted for them? I dont really understand having to take the bike back to your mechanic every time you want to turn the nut that adjusts your shock..

-Holiday wrote: As far as the shock, if you're that concerned about having it on the perfect setting, why not try to find someone on a gizzer forum who is your wieght and has it adjusted for them? I dont really understand having to take the bike back to your mechanic every time you want to turn the nut that adjusts your shock..

i don't just mean the shock. i mean the whole suspension in general.

i dunno how the rebound, damping, and pre-load and all the combinations of adjusting them works.

basically i have to learn to diagnose my bike then take it to him for tuning it to correcr whatever i think it's doing wrong. so like i said, it depends on me since if i thought wrong... i'll end up w/ an even crappier setup.


and yeah... i already asked at teh gixxer forum and they also said there's no magic number. you have to learn what is best for you as you go on.

You need to learn these things, especially if you are going to be frequenting the track.

CNF2002 wrote:You need to learn these things, especially if you are going to be frequenting the track.

yeah.

but at the tracks... it's even easier, theoretically.

i go ride, observe, take it to the suspension guys, ride again, observe, take it to the suspension guys. rinse and repeat until i find a good setup.

but even then... they said it's impossible to setup your bike for all the turns of a racetrack so i need to basically find a setup that will work great overall.

If you figure out how to turn the little doo dad yourself..you wont have to bring it to the suspension guys.. you are aloud to tinker with the bike a bit yourself Verm..it wont bite.

NorthernPete wrote:If you figure out how to turn the little doo dad yourself..you wont have to bring it to the suspension guys.. you are aloud to tinker with the bike a bit yourself Verm..it wont bite.

i know how to turn it... well except for the shock preload w/o resorting to a hammer and screwdriver.

i just dunno how much to turn it to get what i want.

neither does the mechanic, wich is why he says to ride it then bring it back. You can do the exact same thing as your mechanic.

If you are scared of messing it up then get a bottle of white out or something and put a mark on the adjuster and on a stationary part of the shock so you can adjust it back to where it was before you started messing with it.

fireguzzi wrote:neither does the mechanic, wich is why he says to ride it then bring it back. You can do the exact same thing as your mechanic.

that actually makes sense... but still, until i have a better idea how much effect each adjustment i make, chances are, they'll still have a way better idea of how much to adjust than me.

LOL! riding is so complicated but i really wanna learn. anyway... i should also ask for tips each time i take it to them on how much to adjust so i can do it on my own next time.


also... i wish my suspension is adjusted by clicks instead of each full circle turn.

The Crimson Rider® wrote:
LOL! riding is so complicated but i really wanna learn.

only as complicated as you make it.

Question is, how are you going to learn the right way to adjust it if you won't try? Experiment. That's how you learn.