Of wood, trees, and impaired vision...

[pritch]

In recent weeks I've had the Ohlins shock fitted to the S4R and have been trying it out. Dr Robert has tweaked it and now it's about how I like it, but every ride there is a focus on what the suspension is doing. Yesterday I went to Hamilton for the10k service. Good roads on which to evaluate suspension settings.

Ohlins offer a steering damper for the S4R and sometimes I've thought it really could use one. If the bike hits bumps in a bend it shakes its head to the degree that I've thought this might be the first bike I've owned that I would consider actually needed a steering damper.

So heading home, somewhere around PioPio, I noticed that the twitchiness in the steering seemed umm obtrusive(?). The steering damper option was being considered seriously. As was the not inconsiderable expense involved.

In the Awakino Gorge I thought I detected a weave. Weave can be normally eliminated by adding a couple of clicks rebound damping to the rear shock. So I was thinking about doing just that.

In the Ureti valley the various twitches and weaves seemed more pronounced. Since I had previously backed off the rebound damping in the forks, I decided that first thing in the morning I'd check the tyre pressures and add a couple of clicks rebound both ends.

When I got home I parked the bike and went inside, changed out of riding gear, and watched the weather forecast on the News. Perhaps half an hour after arriving home i went to move the bike, the back tyre was dead flat.

Don't do what I did. Don't overlook the bloody obvious…

[Bald Eagle]

That air-redistribution adjustment can be a bit of a bugger.

[Movistar]

Ring up the people that carried out the service and complain that they didn't check the tyres properly and your billing them for the price of a new one...

This must be their fault as it was fine on the way up there...

(I'm used to getting these phone calls in a previous life...)

[slofox]

My bike don't go that well with a flat either...

[BMWST?]

That air-redistribution adjustment can be a bit of a bugger.

i have had cause recently to attempt to redistriute that air three times in a 24 hr period...it just kept going to the top!

[scorpious]

sounds like its the case of the old fashioned puncture to me.

[YellowDog]

I have wrongly assumed my tyre pressures to be spot on before when they were not even close.

Won't do that again!

[pritch]

sounds like its the case of the old fashioned puncture to me.

You catch on quick

Yellow Dog, I had checked the pressures before I headed away. I assumed the shop would've at least checked them too and that the tyres would've been right then. Unfortunately that situation was subject to change...