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hey everyone just went and checked to see what the rebound/compression settings on my bike were at (adjusted by previous owner) and found that there were more clicks/turns than I expected on all settings front and back.

Rather than the 11 positions for front rebound I had 14, and compression was 18 rather than 13. Rear was similar with 5 3/4 turns rebound instead of 4 1/2 and 6 1/4 compression where standard is 4 turns.

Anyway, just wanted to know if anyone had heard of this before as it struck me as wierd, what could it be caused by? Also if I want to go back to factory settings do I still just go the recommended clicks from fully clockwise or are they offset?

SE Brisbane ? There are heaps of suspension experts up your way mate, I am sure it won't be long until one of them pops their head up and helps you out.

set it up at 5mm preload and i am not sure about x turns on this and x turns on that would have to set it up by feel.

I know the standard settings are in the manual and they work if you have standard suspension but i swapped everything out on mine for other stuff.

I think all settings are from full in.

Give Mick Hams a call, or if he doesn't know, get him to ask neil!

Strika wrote:Give Mick Hams a call, or if he doesn't know, get him to ask neil!

sure thing mate.

I know that I have to set preload first and then the rest by 'feel', but what was worrying me was the additional adjustment positions. As far as I can tell all parts are stock. I just wanted to start from standard and go from there.