18-06-13, 04:59 PM
Hi,
Your forks are an example of gaining more control at the expense of comfort. With the basic damper rod fork design of Fazers / Hornets / Bandits / budget bikes in general, there is no way to improve fork performance in all areas without something being compromised. Compression characteristics seem particularly bad, the area in which these emulators work best.
The good news is that in the future your forks are ideal for this sort of conversion, as is anyone with aftermarket springs and heavier fork oil fitted already. Fazers with standard springs could also be modded to improve their damping function, but I suspect the gains might not be as great.
The R6 spring is the standard unit that comes with the shock (couldn't see any numbers etched on the spring). I set the spring's preload to MAX as it's for a bike some 25kg lighter. Having said that, I might take the preload back down a notch or two in order to gain even more comfort, I was mildly concerned it might bottom out, but all is well ;-)
Regarding a future group buy of emulators, I'd much prefer to have a couple of other Fazer owners try out the emulator conversion first to confirm my findings before trying to organise that sort of thing.
Your forks are an example of gaining more control at the expense of comfort. With the basic damper rod fork design of Fazers / Hornets / Bandits / budget bikes in general, there is no way to improve fork performance in all areas without something being compromised. Compression characteristics seem particularly bad, the area in which these emulators work best.
The good news is that in the future your forks are ideal for this sort of conversion, as is anyone with aftermarket springs and heavier fork oil fitted already. Fazers with standard springs could also be modded to improve their damping function, but I suspect the gains might not be as great.
The R6 spring is the standard unit that comes with the shock (couldn't see any numbers etched on the spring). I set the spring's preload to MAX as it's for a bike some 25kg lighter. Having said that, I might take the preload back down a notch or two in order to gain even more comfort, I was mildly concerned it might bottom out, but all is well ;-)
Regarding a future group buy of emulators, I'd much prefer to have a couple of other Fazer owners try out the emulator conversion first to confirm my findings before trying to organise that sort of thing.