This year's Paeroa had been a lot of fun even though it was cut short. However, I'd had to set the bike up so that it was stable as I don't have a steering damper and the last time this bike had been to Paeroa it had suffered from lots of head shakes.

To quicken the steering I lifted the forks up through the triple clamps by 8mm then measured the static and rider sag, adjusting preload as necessary. However, it was looking like the change in geometry might require a change in springs as I was using a lot of preload on the front and the measurements at the rear gave too much static sag but had the optimum rider sag. But I won't know until I've ridden the bike and confirmed things ....

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