Stiffening up the rear shocks on a GSX250

[Sniper]

Forgive me for being on topic, but:
I would try & find a stiffer spring, You may be able to buy them at a reas. cost, ask yer bike shop or measure it up & see if you can find one off a bigger bike @ the wreckers that will fit, look for one with bigger dia. wire. Then if you can open up the shock, put in some heavier oil to increase the damping.

Cheers
Clint

Argh a thread Hijacker, quite me harties. Get him before he injects sense into our society :spudflip:

[John]

another option - measure up the mounts/length for the rear shock and ask all the local wreckers if they have something that fits the bill - you might get lucky cheap !

[kerryg]

I've got several hobbies, chiefest of which are sex and motorbicycling, and cheapest of which is daydreaming. (I was going to say "wanking"

Sex? Sex as a hobby? Is there a club I can join....??? In my case if sex was my hobby I'd have to find another one, one that occupied more than 15 seconds of my time every second leap year ....which would partly explain why I spend so much farking time reading all the crap that people write here.


I empathise about the job. I am "fortunate" enough to be in a reasonably well-paid job but I would have, without any exaggeration at all, at most an hour's work in a day, sometimes literally none, and no way of generating more (it's a long complicated story). It's alright for a little whgile but try it for 2 years..I have to get out, it's driving me nuts. I'm turning into a bloody nervous wreck . But moving from here will surely mean dropping to a fraction of what I now earn, IF I could even get an interview. I don't have 2 heads, or pick-my-nose-and-eat-it at interviews., or wear my underpants outside my trousers..I just don't get an interview. I get screened out before they've even seen me, chiefly (I believe) due to age..and secondly (this is really ironic) because I have held some reasonably semi-responsible jobs in the past and I am apparently "too big"' (no, not just my arse...or my old fella) for some positions I have applied for ...I'm bloody not though, so maybe it's just another way of saying I'm too farking old....

This talk about NZ having the lowest employment rate in the OECD doesn't translate to work for me....

[kerryg]

Forgive me for being on topic, but:
I would try & find a stiffer spring, You may be able to buy them at a reas. cost, ask yer bike shop or measure it up & see if you can find one off a bigger bike @ the wreckers that will fit, look for one with bigger dia. wire. Then if you can open up the shock, put in some heavier oil to increase the damping.

Cheers
Clint

You are forgiven...

[clint640]

another option - measure up the mounts/length for the rear shock and ask all the local wreckers if they have something that fits the bill - you might get lucky cheap !

Yup, cheap is good! but maybe get the advice of a suspension guru, just cos something has the same eye to eye dimensions & looks a bit heavier doesn't mean it will work. Different bikes have different linkage systems.

Cheers
Clint

[hondacmx450]

I'm a little heavier than the rated weight for my GSX250, (think it's around 60-70 kgs, and I'm 97), so think it's sagging a bit in the back end. I rang Sportzone and asked about hardening up the rear end but they said the GSX250 doesn't have an adjustable rear shock.

I'm just investigating possibilities at the moment, but has anyone had experience with putting adjustable rear shocks in bikes that otherwise wouldn't have them?

I do intend on upgrading, (GSXR750) in about a year, but would like to keep the 250, for communting to the gym and things where it perhaps wouldn't be as likely to be stolen. Thus the operation would be done with long term riding as a goal.

Any thoughts?

lose wait you fat bastard jokes 750 will fit done it and works good

[hondacmx450]

I usually think about sex, and then work and then back to sex. The problem is when the boss rings while Im thinking about sex and I ask him what type of undies he has on.

I usually stop thinking there

but you know cause you dreesed him that morrning

[vifferman]

I empathise about the job. I am "fortunate" enough to be in a reasonably well-paid job but I would have, without any exaggeration at all, at most an hour's work in a day, sometimes literally none, and no way of generating more (it's a long complicated story). It's alright for a little whgile but try it for 2 years..I have to get out, it's driving me nuts. I'm turning into a bloody nervous wreck .

Yeah. Me too.
I don't have enough to do, and I really like being very busy.
And when I do have stuff to do, it's excruciatingly boring.
I've done some boring jobs in the past (scrub-cutting; fruit picking/packing; sorting, cleaning and examining (with a microscope) drill cores (that was one very, very, boring job), but this is really doing my head in. It pays OK, but a lot less than I'd be earning if I hadn't made a series of dumb career moves. Luckily my darling wife is paid much more than me, recognises my plight, and has "given permission" for me to find something I can enjoy, regardless of the salary.

[kerryg]

It pays OK, but a lot less than I'd be earning if I hadn't made a series of dumb career moves. Luckily my darling wife is paid much more than me, recognises my plight, and has "given permission" for me to find something I can enjoy, regardless of the salary.

Ditto on the dumb career moves..oh then was an ill-advised marriage or two...and a venture into self-employment...

Sounds like your missus is a find, better look after her

[Sniper]

but you know cause you dreesed him that morrning

I have no idea what dreesed means? Is that retard speak or are you just drunk? When is morrning? You know, you really are an anal retentive jackass.