You should have preload adjusters which'll be in the top fork cap, is a round head with two flats for (10mm?) spanner to adjust preload, wound in gives more, out gives less, tho' I'd say the FZS is rather softly sprung the forks aren't too bad really.
How heavy are you/pillion/luggage as my first thought is weight of load is using all/too much suspension travel?
Try this to ascertain travel, with bike on sidestand attach a cable tie to one fork so's it grips but can slide up the fork tube put it down touching the dust cap of the slider, idea is go for a ride and see how far up the tube it's gone, some way over half way between dust cap at bottom on bottom yolk would be about right for travel, much less would mean the front's too hard cos' of some mechanical issue, like there's way too much oil or there's something making the spring too hard, someone's added washers to increase preload for instance!
Before you go out tho' just sit on the bike in riding gear off the stand and see how much travel's used just in static sag, should be about 25mm or so, which'll be evident when you get off again and the suspension settles back to unladen the cable tie'll be a little way up the fork tube, much more than that 25mm and the preload probably isn't enough, much less, like 10mm prehaps, then the preload is too great. Think I'm right in saying about 1/3 of travel's taken with static sag, tho' that includes bike weight, not just rider, imagine the bike weighs about 190k and you 60k at very least with gear on so you're a pretty large part of the overall weight.
Wouldn't suggest changing oil or anything if you're not too sure of things, leave brakes and suspension alone if you don't know exactly what you're doing, but this cable tie test should point one way or other.
Topic: 2001 front suspension adjusting ? (Read 1919 times)
