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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Not so sure about all the references to someone who weighs 110kgs though...
    Clearly it's NOT you, Pritch... having given up pies and that!
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    [QUOTE=pritch;1129547736]There is a question been perplexing me

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    Adjust, go for ride......if wrong adjust back or forth, go for ride.....repeat until premium found.

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    Quote Originally Posted by avgas View Post
    Adjust, go for ride......if wrong adjust back or forth, go for ride.....repeat until premium found.
    Do you know what spring rate is..???

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    Quote Originally Posted by avgas View Post
    Adjust, go for ride......if wrong adjust back or forth, go for ride.....repeat until premium found.

    Some people call this science.
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    Increasing spring preload is not good compensation for incorrect rate.
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    Quote Originally Posted by avgas View Post
    Adjust, go for ride......if wrong adjust back or forth, go for ride.....repeat until premium found.

    Some people call this science.
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    That only works if the spring rates and damping calibration ( internally ) is fundamentally ok for the rider. If they are not no amount of external adjusting will achieve a decent result

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    There is one un-answered question *ALL* of you have missed.

    How many pies did Pritch not eat to lose 10kgs? The racetech site was no use to me here in trying to calculate that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by davebullet View Post
    There is one un-answered question *ALL* of you have missed.

    How many pies did Pritch not eat to lose 10kgs? The racetech site was no use to me here in trying to calculate that.
    I have it on good authority that Pritch has eaten ONE pie since February.
    I can not, however, give you an accurate figure of the possible amount of pies he COULD have eaten.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by PrincessBandit View Post
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    Assuming the conversion rate of pie to fat is 100% and the average pie is approx 250gms?, that's a grand saving of 40 pies. Almost enough for downpayment on a Robert Taylor suspension extreme makeover!
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    Quote Originally Posted by davebullet View Post
    that's a grand saving of 40 pies. Almost enough for downpayment on a Robert Taylor suspension extreme makeover!
    Would've been about one a week so that's not a million miles out...

    And by a remarkable coincidence there is a Robert Taylor suspension makeover underway...

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    Quote Originally Posted by dipshit View Post
    Do you know what spring rate is..???
    He needs to take an angle grinder with him to adjust the spring rate.

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    Anyone have any links to , any sites that show stock spring rates?
    Race tech don`t list the rear rate of the bike i`m after.Sonic is not realey that bike specific and doesn`t list stock rates.
    Can`t find recommendations on the ohlins site.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackflagged View Post
    Anyone have any links to , any sites that show stock spring rates?
    Race tech don`t list the rear rate of the bike i`m after.Sonic is not realey that bike specific and doesn`t list stock rates.
    Can`t find recommendations on the ohlins site.
    Send me a pm with all the details of what you have got.
    My advice is also ( where given ) dont implicitly trust spring rate reccommendations on overseas wbsites. They dont take everything into consideration and often are a starting point only.

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