An interesting thing I discovered about Honda suspension adjusters yesterday. Unlike other Japanese bikes I have owned, turning the rebound adjusters to almost full on the Honda actually makes a difference!
I firmed everything up on Sunday night, and had not yet ridden it. So after the service I returned home via upper Beaconsfield and thru the Dandenong ranges. Well I nearly died on the very first hairpin It tipped it in and the front immediately chattered it's head off, and made a B line for the bushes! I managed to stand it up slow it down and tip it back in again and make the turn, but man the shutter speed was definately set for sport
I pulled over and backed off some rebound, and VOILA! Different bike again. Amazing it actually works!
So from there I enjoyed the new feeling of being Jean Michaelle Bayle on my new Hornet! Riding it like a dirt bike for a few turns, then turning back into Jamie Robinson and getting off the bike and chin on the bars, elbows out I had a ball!
Those Renthals make the bike feel as though it has power steering now! Light as. But you also have to be carefull not to disturb the bars mid turn either, as if you hang on to it too tightly it sets up an oscilation, with the bike wiggling and shimmying it's way thru the turn. But once tipped in if you lighten the bar pressure it is not an issue.
They are very very very wide, so I may yet cut them down a few Cm's. However I am going to ride 1000k's with them like they are before I make that decision, as often it is just a familiarisation thing.
But is has totally transformed the ride postion. I am now leant a little further FWD, and I reckon it's damn near pefect. Not too farr fwd, but enough to balance the wind pressure. And the screen doesn't cause any more or less buffetting than it did with the high bars!
But the MX bars do encourage silly antics! I can see this bike allowing me to lose some money and possibly a few points too!
The additional rear preload has certainly helped in stiffening up the bike and allowing more rapid changes of direction without the suspension wallowing around and bouncing into the next turn. Now you can flick it from full lean to full lean, without any adverse effects.
He loves the car, and would come on the bike if it meant he was with me! 
.... now they would be a bunch of tea-totolling poofters!!!
