Monoshock adjustment

My CX did.

 

Perhaps I should claim I was trolling...

 

William Grainger wrote

My 305 didn't.

 

You should have said that "Almost *no* japanese motorcycle comes with a
spanner to adjust the rear shock preload that isn't made of completely shite
metal".

 

Corrodable cheese. Must have been tricky to develop, but has a wide
variety of uses.

 

Corrodable cheesy peas!

 

Grand. That would save the fiddle of sprinkling paprika.

 

The preload is basically a ride hight adjustment. There are two
drawbacks here. First, if you don't make a corresponding
adjustment to the front end you change the steering geometry
(making it slower steering). Secondly it will be easier to make
the rear suspension bottom and that can be a problem if the
roads are really bumpy and will not be nice to your back.

The spring will be just as stiff after you reduce preload. Even so
comfort may improve because after reducing the preload you
will have more negative suspension movement available and
this may (depending on if you had enough before adjusting)
enable the wheel to follow the road better.

It may and the only way to know is to test.

 

Previously on ukrm, Ace said...

Steering head bearings?

It doesn't matter to me, I have a multi-adjustable C-spanner for doing
steering heads and shock preload.

 

The Drifter does...

 

Previously on ukrm, Dr Ivan D. Reid said...

The earliest RD350 YPVS had a stupid toothed rubber belt to adjust
preload, it usually broke the first time it was used.