Rider sag

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Morning gents, bit of feed back for you,Bike standing on floor with Mrs holding it central whilst I measure,487mm that is on preload 6 with all damping off.After many preload up and down to double check the upshot was, max preload number 11 I think it is gave a measurement of 452mm which equates to 35mm sag!Thats me fully kitted at 15st 10.5 lbs!Any thoughts appreciated, cheers

Checking the static sag on the forks:

Put a cable tie around the fork 
With the bike on the centre stand take all the weight off the forks and push the cable tie down to the dust seal. 
Take the bike of the centre stand put it on the side stand and now sit on it. 
Take the weight off the side stand and put your full weight on the bike. 
Do not bounce the forks.
Put the bike back on the centre stand and take all the weight of the forks.
Take your measuement from the top of the dust seal to the bottom of the cable tie
That is you Fork static sag

The following are recommended setting for a bike on standard forks and oil

Front: raise the forks 10mm through yokes.
Compression: five turns back from max.
Rebound: six turns back from max.
Preload: maximum.
Static sag: 24mm. 


Checking the rear shock static sag:

Rear static sag is measured from the top of the Rear axle to a point on the frame, fairing or grab rail (mark it with a piece of tape) directly above the axle

Put the bike on the centre stand and measure the distance as outlined
Take the bike off the stand and sit on it with full weight, do not bounce the rear
Measure the distance from the top of the rear axle to the point marked while sitting on it.


The following are recommended setting for a bike with standard rear shock:

Rear: compression three turns back from max.
Rebound: maximum.
Preload: 10mm of static sag


Use the setting as a base and work from there.

As mentioned  previously the standard front is too soft as standard even with full preload and under damped as oil is only 5W and is best to upgrade to 7.5w  and work from there, going to 10w can limit you compression setting and make it difficult find a good setting.
 
For standard road use progressive springs are usually best, but some prefer linear springs
The rear benifits greatly from an R6 or S1000RR shock upgrade

I ride two up a lot and have Wilber progressive fork springs with 7.5w synthetic oil and S1000Rr rear shock with a 10mm aluminium ring under the spring to allow greater adjustments of the preload. Never found any need to go the R1 fork route as I found sufficient adjustment on my setup to suit  me.