Re: (chiromikey)
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Quote, originally posted by chiromikey »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i was carefully able to get off the spring and put the original one back on...thanks for the help guys.
jason,
i too, am curious as to your comment regarding this spring being too light for me...please explain.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Firstly, just because Ohlins "says so" doesn't mean it's right all the time.
Ohlins works off of all the same crappy info that everyone else does. If lets say for instance Ducati gives Ohlins the wrong info pre-production, (like on the 749/999) then there specs will be off.
There is also time and technology to consider. The Ohlins spring charts for your bike were put together a Looooonnnnnnnggggggggg time ago. Just the changes in tires since then have changed how bikes get set up, riding styles, etc.
And in your specific case I weigh almost exactly the same as you do and I have raced two 748's, one 916, one 996 and one 998R since 1999. I have a lot of data on that specific bike/rider weight combo.
Suspension is a little science, a little art and a lot of voodoo and expirience. A spring chart is a very small part of the overall "solution".
For example, in 2003 when I got my GSXR1000 I had the forks done by my local vendor three times before I finaly decided to send them out to the guy with a ton of riders on the same bike, the same forks, etc. They were absolutely spot on the first day I rode them, all I did was set the clickers and sag and let er rip. When I opened them up I couldn't believe how "outside the box" they were. But the bottom line is they worked great! At this point if I were setting up another Suzuki and this guy told me to put Gerbils in the forks I would.