What is your weight, and what weight spring did they set you up with? The spring alone accounts for the ride height, turn in feel and center stand issues, so have you gotten the pre-load, re-bound and compression set for your weight/preferences and how long did that take you?Hungry Tiger said:I bit the big weenie. Put a Touratech Tractive Extreme shock on Friday. Been testing things out all weekend. Driving over things that begged for caution before are now entirely different experience. Hydraulic preload adjustment is peachy. Stronger spring restored say 3/4-in. of rear ride height. Turn in feels easier. Effort to get (the bike) up on the center stand is half. Life is good.
Ohhh, your first words are going to be. DAMN how did I live without this for so long! Then you will say, Damn now I have to get the front suspension done, it sucks!creggur said:I introduced her to a gift the man in the brown truck dropped off:
Yep, I'm headed down the big $$ rabbit hole - but ya know what - I like this bike enough, after two-and-a-half years of ownership to still dump $$ in to make it better. Never been here before so this is uncharted territory for me.coastie said:Ohhh, your first words are going to be. DAMN how did I live without this for so long! Then you will say, Damn now I have to get the front suspension done, it sucks!
::008:: ::26::barkingllizard said:Used my Super Tenere to scare an open range cow crossing the road.....
Thought the same thing about the welds the Yama skid plate and then thought wait a minute it was free. Can't beat free.DangerHawk said:I got my free accessories today after ordering on Monday. I'm use to BMW delivery times measured in weeks and sometimes months. I was shocked to hear the parts were already in.
Installed the side wind protectors and tall windscreen. I haven't had time to test them out.
Still to install are the heated grips, tank bag, and skid plate. The Yamaha skid plate is kinda cheap looking with ugly welds so I'm glad it was free.