I have fitted a new rear spring on my 999S bip and thought a few of you out there might want to know what it's like when you change the springs,
I aint light and I do a lot of two up riding, and I aint slow, so I thought I'd see what the bikes like with a new spring, it's the first time I've changed the spring rate on a bike,
I have done a lot to my bike, and am always looking for ways to make it better and at £80 for an ohlins spring I'd thought this bike needed it more than the other bikes I've had,
so I thought I'd give it a go, I looked up a website I've found and after a good read and abit of compramise, the spring they recommened for my weight needed the shock revalved,well so they said, and I have to agree with them with hind sight,
so I went for the haveryis spring that they said my shock could handle with out being revalved,1091-34/100, it is
it was easy to fit,
first time out it seemed to hard and bouncy at the same time. it took a few miles and abit of playing to get the damping right as the spring through the settings that I had found in the past, out,
in the end I had the rebound set at max and the compressing at 15 out,
the ride is more supple now, it takes bumps better and rides over them and does not upset the bike, not quite a goldwing but noitcably smoother,
and it steers fast as well,
I geuss I had the compressing damping turned up hard to make up for the weak spring that came with the bike,
but what surprised me was what it did to the front forks, I left them as they were but the rear has changed the whole bike and the front that I had to have hard on the compression to stop the forks bottoming under hard braking
is so much better, softer and just as composed, and I hav'nt touched them,
I would recommend any one who is on the large size to have ago, £80 is not that much but I would not recommend you go as high as I have unless you weigh more than 18 stone on a bip and do two up riding.
I would like to try a 1091-31/95 or even a 1091-29/90,
I dont know if a bip has different linkages as the weights that I found on the website are wrong,
the spring I have should still be soft and it's not.
It might be spot on but it's one of thoughs things you have to go both sides to soft and to hard to know the right one for you and unless I try a 31/95 I wont know for sure but I can say it's loads better than 1091-21/75 what was on there for me,
