I put this in "common topics" since my comments aren't 2 stroke specific. First I'm liking this bike more every time that I ride it. However, I'm still a little new to serious dirt riding and I am having a lot to learn. Riding mostly tight woods here in VA, I found the stock suspension set up to really firm. As I have ridden it more, about four or five hours so far, the rear was starting to feel pretty good, but the front was as hard as my mountain bike! Backing the clickers out all the way on both rebound and compression seemed to help some but I was still having a lot of deflection on every little rock and root that I could find. After contacting a couple of shops, I found Allen Shaffer of http://www.asr-4suspension.com/home. I liked the idea of taking my whole bike, complete with rider to someone who is familiar with the area and the type of riding that I do. His recommendation was to re-valve my forks, while keeping the stock springs. He talked me out of lowering it for now. I just spent an hour on some rugged, rutted single track and it feels a lot better! I'm already feeling a lot more confident. and I am able to be a lot more aggressive over rough stuff while the bike feels much more planted. I'm looking forward to having more time on the bike, but I ran out of day time today.
I sent mine to Les at LTR and he was saying that even after 20 hours of riding they weren't close to broken in yet. Very tight tolerances. I am glad you like yours more now and I think that they will get even more plush as they break in. I have about 150 miles on my LTR suspension and I am loving it. Freaking fantastic. Walt
I would have argued with you about spending money on your forks. Send them away to have them worked on. Come on who would do that.... Well... I did and buy far the best money I've spent on my bike yet.
David quit getting a late start and you'll have more time to ride LOL. Sorry I couldn't make it to the club today but happy to hear your bike is working for ya. You going to be at the club next Sat for the Brad Bakken training session?
