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[Jools]

twpd is right about the effects of dropping the forks - an interesting read about why it speeds up the steering though, I knew that dropping the forks or raising the rear quickened the steering but I never really worked out why. I was just one of those that just thought "because it does"

Anyway, on a T8, having 10-12mm of the forks showing above the yokes is pretty much an accepted setting to speed the steering. Luckily, T8's have been around for long enough for other people to have worked out some pretty good compromise settings during their racing heyday.

As twpd says, raising the rear is another way to go. Luckily on a T8 you can do that by raising the rear suspension hoop rather than getting a new shock. You can either unwind the rose joints so that there is a longer thread exposed before you wind the locknuts up, but that will only work if you want a little bit more ride height. It's not such a good idea to go too far with this method otherwise there won't be enough of the rose joint thread actually screwed into the hoop to be strong and solid, so the best way is to get a spacer. These appear quite a lot on eBay, and what they do is screw into the hoop in place of the rose joint, then the rose joint screws into the spacer. This lifts the rear of the bike by 20mm, which again is a good setting discovered by those that knew about these things at the time