Road Star Forum	ForumThreaded ViewRules

Welcome, Guest Please Login or Register.    Lost Password?

Favoured: 0

TOPIC: shock Forum Tools Post New Topic Show latest posts Rules

#222907 on the level (User) Fresh Boarder Posts: 34 shock 2 Years, 8 Months ago   Can you adjust the main shock on a roadie?   Logged     The administrator has disabled public write access. #222908 slothy (User) Platinum Boarder Posts: 1883 Re:shock 2 Years, 8 Months ago   JUST PRELOAD   Logged     The administrator has disabled public write access. #224083 on the level (User) Fresh Boarder Posts: 34 Re:shock 2 Years, 8 Months ago   Say what? Just preload means?   Logged     The administrator has disabled public write access. #224088 Greeny (User) Expert Boarder Posts: 502 Re:shock 2 Years, 8 Months ago   Look under the bike at the shock. There's 2 large nuts on the front end of the shock. The outer one is a jam nut. Loosen the jam nut. Then tighted the nut underneath it. I don't have the specs in front of me, but I'm thinking you can turn it in like an inch or so to stiffen up the shock. Tighten down the jam nut and you're good to go. Someone hopefully can chime in and tell you exactly how far to tighten the inner nut, but I'd start at an inch and see how that feels. Hope that helps....greeny   Logged     The administrator has disabled public write access. #224092 slothy (User) Platinum Boarder Posts: 1883 Re:shock 2 Years, 8 Months ago   what preload is loads the spring up so its creates less sag (ie when you sit on bike it wont drop down as much) - too much preload can cause the spring to bind and you dont want that. what are you wanting to change? rebound, damping, spring rate?   Logged     The administrator has disabled public write access. #224958 on the level (User) Fresh Boarder Posts: 34 Re:shock 2 Years, 8 Months ago   Thanks guys for the advide i took it in about a quarter of an inch!how long is the treaded part on there? does anybody no?   Logged     The administrator has disabled public write access. #225015 raveon59 (User) Fresh Boarder Posts: 63 Re:shock 2 Years, 8 Months ago   As Slothy, and others have mentioned, you do not want to overtighten the preload as this will damage the spring. The owners manual gives a photo of how to do this and states 2.3" is the max preload adjustment, that's measured from the bottom of the spring to the middle of the relay arm. What I did to insure I didn't overtighten the preload is make a gauge by cutting a piece of cardboard 1/4" wide by 2" long, didn't bother considering the .3", and kept tighting until the specs were met. Now this may sound off, but after the sdjustment was made I think the rear brake peddle felt a little more responsive.   Logged     The administrator has disabled public write access. #225018 Erbman02 (User) Platinum Boarder Posts: 3803 Re:shock 2 Years, 8 Months ago   You really need to look in the service manual to see where they measure. There is only a half inch worth of play to turn the nut between the softest to hardest setting. Like I said, this is one adjustment that you need to see the service manuals picture of so not to be out of spec.   Logged       The administrator has disabled public write access. #225092 parttime (User) Senior Boarder Posts: 247 Re:shock 2 Years, 8 Months ago   If your looking for some addtional load to ride 2up or you carry a lot, try a diff spring. I changed mine with a spring from Baron's and my wife and I love it, best money I've spent to date. http://www.baronscustom.com/catalog/display/570/index.html?PHPSESSID=8eee38ef861c3ee74c8baefba38448e8   Logged       The administrator has disabled public write access. #225131 Rayjay (User) Friends make life enjoyable. Platinum Boarder Posts: 1347 Re:shock 2 Years, 8 Months ago   As Erb said, you have to be careful. You don't have a lot of pre-load adjustment down there. The shock has quite a short, limited travel.   Logged     Ray   The administrator has disabled public write access.

Forum List Technical Corner Body/Frame

...................................................................... ...................................................................... ...................................................................... ...................................................................... ...................................................................... ...................................................................... ...................................................................... ...................................................................... ...................................................................... -->