2015 suspension settings?
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No way around it. New springs for your weight.
Its sprung for a 90kg rider.
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Its sprung for a 90kg rider.
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Best guess till then.
Front DDC -4
Rear +3 rebound and -3 compression.
You want the damper to let the rear compress but control the rebound so you?re not pinged out of the seat.
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Front DDC -4
Rear +3 rebound and -3 compression.
You want the damper to let the rear compress but control the rebound so you?re not pinged out of the seat.
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Actually just thinking about it...im 73kg butt naked, but with all my gear on maybe I would get pretty close to that.. boots, gloves, full leathers, back protector and helmet what do you reckon?
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Its still too stiff. You?ll be about 80 kitted at most.
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I agree with what Alex has said/suggested
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Thanks for the heads up.. will have a twiddle around with it at the weekend...or just put on 10kg!!
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Yep, if not I?ve had mine wrong for a long bloody time lol!
Not Doc quite yet, the Viva is in March, but the end is in sight though!
I wish I had this problem lol ...
I can't agree more with Alex on this. I'm a lightweight too and struggled, no suffered with the original springs for a year before I finally changed them for something that were actually compliant enough to work with my weight. I was lucky enough to have complained about the unsuitability of this suspension to AJ after getting the bike home and feeling how hard the suspension was, with no way to soften it. AJ were very good about it and after a lot of tooing and froing between them and BMW, they got BMW pay towards the spring change. BMW were adamant that they wouldn't change the springs in their dealers workshops but directed me to a specialist of my choice. I chose MCT
to do the work and have never looked back since.
BMW sent me a cheque for ?400 + pounds towards the job.
So a good result for me and at the end of all this, I've got a bike I can actually ride now.
Just weighed myself with all my gear on, and came in at a portly 82kg!
Did you guys measure the static sag as well?
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That's the issue. If you're not heavy enough you can't get it low enough in the stroke to set sag. Please make sure your fork pre-load is all the way out (it is by default).
FYI, if you do make a change to the geometry (inc preload) you need to CALIB the DDC.
Yeah...it appears they sprung it for midlife crisis riders [emoji23]
Its a shame they don?t do M2M on all bikes. But every manufacturer is the same. They are sprung for a weight.
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Its a shame they don?t do M2M on all bikes. But every manufacturer is the same. They are sprung for a weight.
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