Rear Shock Preload Setting

[SteveX]

@SteveX
Curious as to what your sag measurement is when on that #3 preload setting?

Not sure off hand - I just made the change, went for a ride and saw how it feels / works. When I get a chance I'll try and measure it up.

 

[Scuba Craig]

Steve you beat me to it I was going to say that if you allow aprox 1 inch of sag that you (all your weight needs to be squarely on bike with feet on pegs/boards)on the bike holding up by holding a fence or something and get some one to measure.

On my old sports bikes I used to be able to measure sag by tieing something (cable tie, piece of string etc) around the fork tube and pushing it down against the slider (or whatever that bit is called). Then sit squarely on the bike. After getting off the bike you could measure how far up the tube the piece of string had moved.

I haven't looked close enough at the Rocket to see whether this same technique is doable. Might be hard to get my big sausage fingers inside the spring to the fork tube.

 

[Scuba Craig]

On my old sports bikes I used to be able to measure sag by tieing something (cable tie, piece of string etc) around the fork tube and pushing it down against the slider (or whatever that bit is called). Then sit squarely on the bike. After getting off the bike you could measure how far up the tube the piece of string had moved.

I haven't looked close enough at the Rocket to see whether this same technique is doable. Might be hard to get my big sausage fingers inside the spring to the fork tube.

Scratch that idea on the Rocket. I've just had a closer look at the rear suspension.

 

[1olbull]

Not sure off hand - I just made the change, went for a ride and saw how it feels / works. When I get a chance I'll try and measure it up.

Thanks.
Your sag should be 30% to 35% of your rear suspension travel. At least an inch or more.

 

[cr0ft]

I couldn't get the rear shocks to where I wanted them, comfort-wise, so I put on a pair of Progressive 444 HD's on there. Night and day, swallows sharp shocks with aplomb and the bike tracks perfectly around curves, the stock shocks on my R3T just didn't do a good job. Well worth $500 to jcmotors.com (plus shipping and duties over here, of course.)

 

[zenbiker]

Get rid of the stock shocks. When I changed to Progressive 430s the difference was astounding.

 

[Rick McC.]

I do what the manual said on mine; set it on two for me, and four when riding two up.