it may be time to get them High performance motorcycle suspension sales and service from EPM Performance Imports
im gonna get the rear shock
im gonna get the rear shock
need new suspetion springs
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Just got the hyperpro spring kit. Progressive springs front and back with their oil. Will advise on ride once installed.
cbzdel
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how will the back shock be different? just wondering, seems like if you want a stiffer ride you just adjust it to the #7 setting..
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scroll near the bottom and you'll see the FZ6R project link. It's going to be one of my mods this winter, I just need to find a tech that can do it for me since I live in an apartment with no garage.
scroll near the bottom and you'll see the FZ6R project link. It's going to be one of my mods this winter, I just need to find a tech that can do it for me since I live in an apartment with no garage.
THE BIKE RIDES PRETTY GOOD STOCK but with the new shock compression, and rebound will be adjustable . until you have ridden some with a great suspension you don't know the diff. after changing the front springs i can feel even better that the rear is lacking. there is a drawback on a good suspension. you can go to fast and not realize it . but high end suspension is NOT CHEAP .
i have over 3k in my snowmobile suspnsion , but oh can i go . a big reason i did the sled is i have 6 screws in my back , i cant take the beating any more
i have looked there but i what a fully adjustable shock
cbzdel
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Gotcha, with my rear shock set to 7 I can feel so much slop up front, but with a front upgrade I guess it does not respond the same to match the new front end..
The problem with just adjusting pre-load in our shock is all you're doing is using a stiffer part of the spring. When you stiffen a spring you need to slow down the dampening to match so you don't get a bouncy springy feeling. (I have experience with shocks in a couple other applications but the dynamics are the same.) Springs are progressive by nature. Some more than others depending on the number of coils, coil thickness, etc... and the more you load them the stiffer they get. But they also have more energy to release on rebound. And springs release their energy VERY FAST. That's what the shocks are for. They slow down the action to smooth things out. If you just pre-load the spring to the max without the dampening changing, it'll rebound too fast and feel bouncy. And on a bike, you need the rear to match the front. That's why I don't think you should set the rear much stiffer than 5 at the max (for a single rider) because the dampening isn't slow enough in our shock and the front just isn't stiff enough to match. Going through the corners your front and rear need to work together and compress and rebound together. If your rear spring is at 7, when it compresses and then rebounds super fast, it's going to transfer all kinds of weight forward and up, losing rear grip, collapsing the fork and possibly high-siding you.
If i had the $$ for this I'd probably do it. Aside from the exhaust, the lack of adjustable dampening on the suspension is probably my biggest complaint about the bike. I think the stock suspension works well together when the rear is set properly. (I'm 215# and I run it on 3 or 4 usually.) But there's no real way to improve it without modifications. But like someone else mentioned, good suspension is expensive. That and quality of the brakes is where the biggest part of the price difference is between our bike and an R6.
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you need to contact them its not listed as it is a new model
its not that i want a stiffer ride , i want a smoother ride , with 3 separate adjustments i can set for whats best for me . for any one that does not know about shock adjustments there better of with out them as you could make it handle really poor .1 hi speed compression adjustment is for impacts as running over a 2x4, low speed compression is for a dip in the road . rebound is for how fast the rear of the bike comes back up from a impact. when set right can make for a very sweet ride . my snowmobile has ohlins front shocks , i just had them revalved as the compression was too stiff. so when i hit a rock it would kick up the sled . now the shock should give and not buck the sled
My last bike was a 2008 CBR1000 with full adjustments. For reasonable street riding (under 90MPH), I find the FZR suspension to be BETTER than any combo I could get on the CBR. If I regularly rode above 100MPH, I'd still have the CBR. But I don't and I don't.
Talk to EPM performance or the Annitori Distributing on Hyperpro usa site. Spring kit cost me $284 delivered. I didn't want to invest in total adjustable front and rear suspension. I feel that the best way to go would be variable progressive springs for our stock parts. Racetech did some testing and will match you up with their set up based on type of riding and your weight. The mods for me included re-valving and most was directed at the front shock. Surprisingly, they left the rear shock as is, for street purposes. Total cost for racetech set up was $500 for parts.