Following an article by Robert Taylor and a year of thinking my SS rear was too harsh, I sent the shock to him to look at. He said that Ducati produced bikes that were often over sprung and under damped and that the 900SSie would lock at over 60% as the valves were on the small side. He went on to say the spring may not be right for me if it was from the Japanese market. We it came back and too be honest I don't have much to do with suspension settings as I'm used to bikes with with bugger all and old school twin shocks. Well got it back revalved with the racetech kit and the same spring. Its firm as you'd expect from a Duke but the rear is so much better on bumps and especially bumps on bends....you can almost imagine that the rear tyre skipped over bumps and now it follows them. Worth the $650.00 I say.
Yeah, agreed - Robert used my bike as the guinea pig for that article (1000SS) and the difference was profound over the stock set up. he fitted a new spring to mine though as well as I'm reasonably light (72kg) plus the stock Ohlins spring was a progressive one, replaced with a more suitable straight rate spring. he also replaced the compression adjuster with one that flows a lot better. Ended up getting the forks redone with Race Tech valves and Ohlins springs after having the 'new' shock back for a few weeks. Big difference all round and well worth the $$
