Hello there from Italy after reading about this mod, I have replaced my original shock with a S1000RR '12 with 4000 km. The shock works very good (everything works better than the original), the only proble is that with the shock fully preloaded I have a statit sag of 27 mm (against a reccomended 10-15) and a rider sag of 55 (against a reccomended 30-40). My weight is 90 kgThis make me thinking that the spring rigidity is correct, but the spring is too short, it'd be 10-15 mm longer. What you think? Could I resolv with a 10-15 mm spacer under the spring?ps sorry for my bad english...
Odd, mine went straight in. The only thing I did was make some new bushes for the top, I didn't fancy washers so removed the original bushes and made new ones. (and put a stronger spring on). The bottom bolt went through fine, like standard.
Does your shock have the silver or bronze coloured shock fork. The silver one allow adjustement of the sag to 20mm the bronze one only allow adjustement of the sag to 27mm. I did fit a 10 mm spacer to my silver forked one to allow more adjustment, but found that adjusting the sag to 15mm made it hop over bumps and set it back to 20mm. I weigh about 87Kg. Read back through my posts
Quote from: unfazed on 08 September 2014, 09:28:03 pmDoes your shock have the silver or bronze coloured shock fork. The silver one allow adjustement of the sag to 20mm the bronze one only allow adjustement of the sag to 27mm. I did fit a 10 mm spacer to my silver forked one to allow more adjustment, but found that adjusting the sag to 15mm made it hop over bumps and set it back to 20mm. I weigh about 87Kg. Read back through my postsThe shock is a 2012 with silver fork; at last I have used a spring from a R6 shock with a 10 mm spacer, and the shock works great with my weight (95 kg dressed). In this configuration I have obtained a static sag of 15 mm and a rider sag of 35, but I felt the bike too hard; actually I have reduced the preload of 6 mm, with a rider sag of 41 mm, and I feel much more confidence and comfort.The rebound damping is set to 5, I switch the LS compression damping between 2 and 3 depending on the road; the HS compression damping is 4 as standard, I have no idea how to set this one
So wich one should I choose? The one with the silver fork or the bronze fork?
A 12mm bolt with the shoulder 41.5mm long, you can cut it to clear the dog bones and leave a few mm more than the nut..Important bit is the 41.5mm shoulder
Is it the one with bronze bottom fork or the silver bottom fork?