27-08-13, 06:52 PM
(27-08-13, 10:51 AM)Camshaft link Wrote: I can't answer this but great bragging rights would be a difference. 8)
I gotta say, the look of those big USDs has really grown on me since seeing many on this forum. I'm not saying I'm a great or very fast rider, maybe mine behaved because I couldn't get it near it's limits, but this is still defo the best handling one I've ridden. Anyone got a good photo of a standard rear shock, not sure I'd even know for sure if it had been replaced with summat else - all I know is that it's got a red spring :rolleyes
(27-08-13, 01:02 PM)devilsyam link Wrote: Come ride mine
Yes please Luke, can I have it for a day in Wales? :lol
(27-08-13, 02:40 PM)kebab19 link Wrote: Yes, you would notice quite an improvement.
Have you looked inside your forks - someone might have upgraded them already
No, I haven't the faintest idea if they've been upgraded or not, but I do wonder. The bike is set up quite firm front and rear it seems, which I prefer to any kind of wallowing in the corners on a softer setting. But I've always just bought bikes and then pretty much lived with however they were set up, daft I know! I've read so many stories of people who don't know what they're doing (me) getting tied in knots trying to set up their own that I've avoided doing it.
I'm very tempted to go with USDs just as a "make it mine" kind of thing, as I hope to keep this one for a long time, and I've never gone very far with mods on these before. But if the handling were even better than it seems now, well I couldn't say I'd completely wasted my money doing it, even if I can't get the best out of it. Just thinking about it is all good fun too!