Ducati Sporting Club UK > DesmoDue Race Series > DesmoDue - General Questions and Chat > Front Fork Spring query

[ells]

9.5 seems a bit heavy. Just got 9.5s in mine but I weigh 113 kg without kit.
Mark.

[chris.p]

Hi Paul,
As long as the forks are not diving to quickly, and you are happy with the way they are working and if the static and rider sag is correct , leave them alone.

To adjust the travel of the forks you will need to add a bit more oil to each fork leg to leave between 5mm to 10mm left before the forks bottom.

When did you last change the fork oil???

Using 10wgt oil would not be a problem, it would slightly slow the fork travel and rebound down.

You should still have the different threaded spacers for the top of the forks rods(the ones that hold the spring down) these can be used to adjust the preload.


If you are at Oulton tomorrow, look me up for a chat.


I am the guy that set the bike up originaly for Matt.



Chris

[PDL]

Cheers Chris will come and find you.

The forks had new 7.5wt oil at the start of the season done by Ducati John, he set the air gap to stock which I think was 155mm but I will need to check his service report to qualify that. I've just put new pads in SBS RS and the forks were dropping quickly at first but that may have been my heavy handedness with new pads.