Suspension adjustments - need wheel stands?

[bugjuice]

For sure...PM me or stick it in the meetings and events thread. You can gimme some tips on getting to know these beasts

done. i'll pm ya in a bit

[Dadpole]

RE: alignment of the forks
The best method I have found is to cut a piece of glass just small enough to cover the forks, then hold one side against one fork and use the smallest feeler gauge yo have to see the other fork has no gap. (if you get what I mean)

Use 5mm glass if you can. 3mm or less is not always perfectly flat.

[Hoon]

a good place to start (if you haven't dicked with anything at the moment) is to set everything to the middle. So wind in the preload, rebound etc etc all the way one way, then count the clicks back all the way. Then click half the total amount back. Then ride it, and adjust one thing at a time while you're out riding and see how that feels.

Yes this is a good place to start but don't make the same mistake I did and interpret that as a safe setting. The ohlins rears adjust to about 40 clicks out on rebound and compression which makes the middle about 20. This is still way too soft for most bikes (check the sportsrider link above you will see the average is about 10 clicks out which is way firmer). I was wallowing all over the place (even raced the whole season like that!!) and wrongly diagnosed the problem as a too light rear spring which I assumed must be set up for a 75kg rider. I then bought a 90-95kg spring, went to swap it out and lo and behold it was the same as the one already in there!!! Thats when I back tracked and revised my preload/rebound/comp settings and now I'm running 5mm sag, 12 clicks rebound, 10 comp on the rear which is much better!!

My point is, yes its a good place to start but like Bugjuice says make sure you do take the time to adjust it afterwards (like that day!!!) as all shocks are different and middle of some maybe totally extreme on others.

Ohh and if anyone is after a 150mm ohlins spring (fits most bikes ohlins) for a 90-95kg rider for $100 - send me a PM.

[bugjuice]

oh yeah, by all means don't leave it.. or if you have to, make sure you get back to it asa, it isn't something that should be dicked with lightly..