I spent a stupid amount on my old '98 w/50k, including new Progressive rear shock, and the prog front fork springs.
Bike is now much much LOWER to the ground. I didn't measure it before/after, but:
*side stand is hard to get down unless bike is perfectly vertical or even leaning away from stand-side
*center stand takes herculean effort to get down (bike up)
*bike just "looks" lower
*bike sits barely off vertical on the side stand on perfectly flat ground
*can't get side stand down at all with the wife on
*pegs scrap even easier
The preload was wherever it is from the factory, so I opted to attempt to tighten it up.
*it was probably just less than half compressed
*i took it to just over half compressed (long session with a screwdriver and a sledgehammer)
I also wasn't sure about the position of the fork tubes in the triple clamps, so I took them down to perfectly FLUSH with top of triple clamps (they were ~2mm above prior to me messing with it).
I haven't ridden it again, but it clearly helped "some" as the sidestand and bike-lean is much improved in the garage...
Bike is now much much LOWER to the ground. I didn't measure it before/after, but:
*side stand is hard to get down unless bike is perfectly vertical or even leaning away from stand-side
*center stand takes herculean effort to get down (bike up)
*bike just "looks" lower
*bike sits barely off vertical on the side stand on perfectly flat ground
*can't get side stand down at all with the wife on
*pegs scrap even easier
The preload was wherever it is from the factory, so I opted to attempt to tighten it up.
*it was probably just less than half compressed
*i took it to just over half compressed (long session with a screwdriver and a sledgehammer)
I also wasn't sure about the position of the fork tubes in the triple clamps, so I took them down to perfectly FLUSH with top of triple clamps (they were ~2mm above prior to me messing with it).
I haven't ridden it again, but it clearly helped "some" as the sidestand and bike-lean is much improved in the garage...