Fair comment Rob. I knew there might be an issue getting the sag right with the Showa because I had struggled earlier in the year with that myself. I joined a gym and lost some weight, which might have helped of course!
As it turns out, I was advised that slightly softer on a V twin is acceptable to damp out the power pulses a bit. The problems were that the shock is within a nat's of running out of compression damping, and the oil overheats. It feels brilliant as it is, so the question really was "has anyone had problems with the std showa".
[Edited on 20-9-2005 by HW]