Eddieb's DR build thread.

[Monstaman]

You'd probably get away with it.
Wouldn't want to go heavier or once you pull the gear off it'll be waaaay over sprung.

(Last post on your thread eddie not relating to your bike specific)

...and even more under dampened!

Just planning our big trip away as I will be carrying the heavier stuff and knowing the DR is a bit soggy in the bum I am looking at options.

As you were ... again

[dino3310]

The mirrors on my DR are shite, They're different heights, small and the don't stay in position.

In keeping with this thread I'm looking for some cheap and cheerful and also useful replacements. So far these are leading at $25 off Trade Me.



Anyone got any other suggestions?

i got one in the shed, it an original BIG one.
if ya want it

[Eddieb]

(Last post on your thread eddie not relating to your bike specific)

...and even more under dampened!

Just planning our big trip away as I will be carrying the heavier stuff and knowing the DR is a bit soggy in the bum I am looking at options.

As you were ... again

No worries

I've ridden a couple of stock DR's and with the rear preload wound right up they were just bearable, anything less and they were like pogo sticks.

With the spring I have fitted the preload is on 3/4's and with ~85kg of me and ~10kg of luggage on the back I think it's a little too hard, I might back the preload off a bit more when I pull the shock to put it back in the high postion.

[Monstaman]

Interesting, I am 74 kg and gear plus the will be two panniers, top box and tent etc, even if the std damping could be firmed up would be good but that is too floppy now.

Be interesting to see the results of your adjustments.

[NordieBoy]

Interesting, I am 74 kg and gear plus the will be two panniers, top box and tent etc, even if the std damping could be firmed up would be good but that is too floppy now.

Be interesting to see the results of your adjustments.

I'd be inclined to go for a 7.6kg spring and 7.5w oil.

[Eddieb]

i got one in the shed, it an original BIG one.
if ya want it

Cheers but I need a pair.

[Eddieb]

I had a trawl through the service manual tonight and found the section on lowering the DR and the factory positioning of the spacer on the shock when in the high and low position. I then had a crawl under the bike to see what was done to lower mine.

It turns out the lower shock mount has been moved to the upper hole, but the spacer hasn't been flipped over. This means it's going to be dead easy to put it all back to standard, but it won't be worth doing a photo essay on it as all the more complicated bits weren't done when it was lowered.

I've decided to leave the preload as it for the moment as lifting the bike back up to standard height will change the bikes geometry and I don't know if/how that may affect the shocks behavior. I'll run it as is for a while then decide if it needs changing.

[Eddieb]

I finished up at work today so was out and about with time to kill. A trip to the local engineers organised for an adapter to be made to fit the FCR carb up to the DR. That will be ready next week.

I also popped into TSS for a nosy at bar risers. They had the Zeta risers which I wasn't a huge fan of after having a few niggly issues with the set I put on the PD, and then they had these. The rise isn't quite as high as the Zeta's, but they are very sparkly and bling with some adjustability built in, and were a bit cheaper so they won out.

[marks]

I finished up at work today

so are you now a man of leisure?

[Eddieb]

so are you now a man of leisure?

Only for this weekend.

[marks]

Only for this weekend.

so what you gonna be doing?

[Eddieb]

The spring is marked 'Eibach 252183'.

Does anyone know how to translate that into a spring rate? I checked out the Eibach site but couldn't even find bike springs and have Googled it but my Google fu wasn't strong.

After crawling under the bike further I can indeed see it is a 7.6kg spring.

Another coil further up is marked with '3830076.0'. I couldn't see that before I washed the bike yesterday.

[Eddieb]

so what you gonna be doing?

Same job, different company name on the top of the paycheck. My job is being 'insourced' back to Telecom, I managed to convince them they needed to take me with it.

After having Telecoms' own solution architects tell a PM that their project would not launch EVER without me, and another PM realising it on their own it wasn't too difficult a discussion

[Woodman]

Same job, different company name on the top of the paycheck. My job is being 'insourced' back to Telecom, I managed to convince them they needed to take me with it.

Well done,

[Eddieb]

So after buying my bling this afternoon I had to have some garage time.

1) The controls without bling with the lowered forks.
2) Bling fitted and forks raised back to standard height, the risers have lifted the bars 25mm and it feels much better.
3) The rear shock in the lowered position.
4) I also cleaned the stickers off the front.

How the feck do you get the lower rear shock bolt undone, I snapped a spanner on it and it hasn't shifted, the bike probably rides like a chopper now.