i run my rear shock softish and fast, i used to runit slow now i find it more"lively over stuff,my forks are solid and they kill
i always like my suspention{sp} soft im going to try a firmer set up at fort bill
see how it goes

still at the end of the day like a lot of people have said
"its wats makes u feel good and fast "

 

I run mine soft and slow out back, and a little harder and pretty fast up front. I have zero scientific basis for this, just that it feels nice and offers a pretty good "oversteer" attitude when it does let go in the corners.

I found the best thing to do was to make some plastic labels up at work and write my settings on them. Have a few runs, change one thing at a time, see what works, what does not work etc.

I was always a "set and forget" man before I went to France, but out there I was messing about with rebound and high speed compression halfway down Les gets 1, the braking bumps were that bad!

Your bike seemed pretty hard to me out in France Al.

Ric B.

im a self confessed perfectionist when it comes to setting things up.

on the bb7 im running a 350lb (im 9.3stone) and about 90 psi in the shock with a small air volume and slowish rebound.

on the monsters iv got some very strang internals so i dont know but its realy just all dials set to off. and 6.5 weight oil in them (good fork oil is a real benifit)

the back is sorta soft with the front harder and faster this stops the bike trying to buck me as it was at first (tho that might have been to do with me)

im under the recomended sag on it as i just can stand the wallowyness of 3 inches of sag, ash says i sit "on" my travel rather than in it. so i guess this is a vote for harder.

ballence is very important as well, if the sus feels imballenced it wont help. But a slihtly stiffer front end never threw anyone over the bars, a soft front and hard rear on the other hand.....

well every one that has ridden my bike so far loves the feel of it so im sticking to a medium slow back and harder faster front.

reason enough for you luke? your only reason is 2 words "trend whore"