Wet weather suspension adjustments

[Toast]

What do you generally change in terms of suspension, front and rear, when the track gets soaked?

I guess that changes made depend upon time and physical resources available as well.

What do you all normally change when it's suddenly wet? What would you ideally do if you had spare shocks, etc.?

[GSVR]

Never known anyone to change shocks when it got wet.

Change to wet weather tyres.

Soften the suspension. Ask Robert Taylor or a fellow racer thats not competing against you. At a guess I'd say take the rebound and damping out a couple of clicks (RT?)

Then after youve done all that the rain will have stopped or never really got started and there will be a good dry line. You will put your cold slicks back on and fall off on the first lap due to pushing to hard on cold tyres.

Did I get that right Trashman?

[JJ58]

I've found that adjusting the anti-squat angle at the rear is the most effective adjustment to make (IE: lower the ride height at the rear).

Generally the more anti-squat you have the more the rear wheel will want to push into the ground in acceleration during the corner, therefore the more aggresive you are at riding, as you can accelerate early.

On wet days, by lowering the anti-squat angle you reduce the push of the wheel into the ground, and therefore can't accelerate as early, consequently you ride less aggresively and more smoothly.

It'll only take a change of 10mm's to make a difference.

Of course I'm just a beginner at this, so feel free to ignore this reply.

[ArcherWC]

Robert told me basicly just less preload on the back. Faster fellas like Trashy i would guess would make more extensive changes

[codgyoleracer]

Different bikes react to different settings in the wet (as they do in the dry)

Its worth making the effort to get out & practice the various settings changes that are available on a wet test day to really see what "feels good" & what doesnt.

The problem with the wet is that some tracks react differently to others due to the tarmac used , other vehicles that were on the track recently, undulations & puddling etc etc - so it becomes almost a a bit of an art to find a good setting quickley.

Glen