| Thanks for the feedback. I have setup the previous bike after a fair bit of track time. After swapping bikes, I put in 1000 street km's with the setup from the old bike including the old race shock. This is too hard for street use because most racers tend to use 9-10kg rear springs to control squat. This is not condusive to any sort of suspension compliance on the street to the extent that the ride was not just uncomfortable to the point of having to ride the bike like a jockey over ant sort of bump and through turns with any bumps, the rear would skip and bounce. Now even though the bike is used mostly on the track, I like to be able to ride occaisionally on the street.
Changing fairings etc is annoying enough as it is (but much easier on the 999 than the GSXR!), without having to go through spring changes as well. The bottom line is I have a track setup that I am very comfortable with, but it is not useable on the street, so I want to find a compromise. |