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Originally Posted by ChopperCharles
Without measuring anything, I could tell I had a lot of sag. So I adjusted the hell out of the preload... too much, now it feels super harsh. So adjusted some back out. Still harsh. And it feels like for all the world like a cheap old car with a busted strut. Every little road imperfection feels like a thump. I'm not at all happy with the rear suspension. Going to keep adjusting, but I'm not a shock connoisseur. Usually I just don't have a problem, but this shock is actively hurting me. Potholes and raised manhole covers jar me hard enough to hurt my back, and gravel roads cause the bike to bounce all over the place - so much so that I ride the road about 15mph slower than I take it on my SSR Buccaneer.
I've got to either dial it in, buy the $500 (ridiculous) shock from CSC, or maybe see if I have an EX500 shock laying around that I can try...
Charles.
Charles.
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be careful out there, a guy I knew hit a depression a few miles from my house and it bounced so hard it threw him from the bike, apparently over the handle bars because he landed face first, he bled to death before anyone could get there to help him. he had just retired about 6 months prior to the accident. I had ran through the same hole quite a while before he did and it threw me around and bounced me out of the seat but I got lucky. after his accident I rode that stretch about 4 times with a can of blaze orange paint in my bag and never found it. no more accidents and I have rode the recon that way a few times so either the county fixed it or my luck has improved.