griff851
I think you’ll find that fat bastards are everywhere, it is best just to stick rider weight plus gear. Otherwise Steve who has known to be “portly” over the years may miss out on his smoko snack pie due to a ping of guilt, and we don’t want that. There are also some that are relatively tall.
There are 2 general conditions for riding sports bikes. The race track and the road. The requirements are completely different. One has bumps, cars, stray dogs and live stock, gravel ice moss, and occasionally vehicles parts, the other does not. Failure to set up accordingly can result in death at high speed. Having had the odd tank slapper at warp speeds I can’t stress to you enough that with one arm your looking down the barrel of a nasty with suspension set too hard. Unless of coarse your just pottering around being a general pubic on a bike. Gay or not.
Maxton is a performance tuning company like cogent dynamics and others, They are not pissing about blowing the wind up customers arses for the sake of a sale, as your new mate at Ohlins has just proven. They are in fact experts in the field of suspension tuning. Yes very punny last comment, but totally inaccurate. Would you ask a Pharmacist if they think you have cancer??
The SP’s are homologation model so you buy one and go on the track. Hence they are firmer. Same as the R series. The 4’s and 5’s also have barrel roller mains which have limited life... because it’s a race machine, and at the time they needed to find ways to stop the HP blowing the things to pieces at WOT for hours on end. I use this just as an example of how different things can be.
The long term guys on this forum are here to help those who through lack of experience would like to know stuff. You may not approve of their humour, or writing style, or even abrupt nature occasionally, but the fact is they know shit about these machines specifically as owners, race mechanics, engineers, enthusiasts and in a couple of cases professionally. This is not the kiddies sand pit here. (if you want that, try the cbr 250 forums, man there is some bullshit floating around there) The goal is to inform and hopefully ensure good working safe machines for people to enjoy riding and tinkering and if possible save money through discussion, education and sharing personal experience.
