Rear Shock Preload (standard)

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How do you measure sag motorbreath?

This is an Ohlins chart, but they have another site with different numbers too:
http://www.ohlins.eu/en/motorcycle/techn...oad--3554/

Everybody recommend different setting.

Stock front springs are dual rate: 0'75kg/mm-1,4kg/mm. Stock rear is 147kg/mm

Mine has 1kg/mm front springs. 137kg/mm rear spring with shorter linkages (shorter linkages should rise the effective spring rate)

Now it achieves:
- Free sag: 25mm front, 7mm rear. The rear of the bike has been lightened about 8kg: titanium can, lithium battery. No centre stand, pillion bar and tools.
- with 85kg rider + 10kg of leathers: 36mm front, 29mm rear.
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Is this table correct for the fzs600 only i checked mine today and found that the rear loading was already set on 8  and gave the following results
R1 R3 = 53 
R1 R2 = 09


the front loading was set on the third line from top
F1 F3 = 50
F1 F2 = 27


Obviously I'm a large rider but I have have atleast 5st allowance before reaching the bikes max load so I would have thought with the preloads set so high I would have been within the limits shown on the table. Any thoughts? (other than the obvious who ate all the pies) :rollin


A earlier post mentions lowering preload from max then raising 5 made it solid, is that to mean the bike just held the road better or somehow the springs needed releasing to get them working again?