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I just read an article that mentioned the rear shock could not be adjusted? Has anyone changed this?
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My Ohlins shipped today. Front suspension shipped yesterday from RaceTech. Won't be long!!!
Hi Beemerphile,
when your Ohlins will arrive can you give me some tech info?
I'd like to know if the leght is exactly the same of the stock one and if can be adjust....
I would be glad to. Are you talking about adjusting the length of the Ohlins or the stocker? I don't recall ever seeing a shock with user-adjustable overall length. I have had some that could be adjusted by the factory or by rebuilders.
Ride height adjustment (overall shock length) is found on many premium shocks. I would be surprised if the Ohlins aftermarket NC700X shock did not have it but if the price really is about $620 US it may not include it.
Beemerphile, question what is RaceTech doing for the front forks? I've had Ohlins shocks, I've ofcourse heard of RaceTech but haven't ever delt with them. Are you just trying to firm things up or going full hard core racing with it?
Well, RaceTech calls them "Gold Valve Cartridge Emulators"...Um I think it is called cartridge emulator. The gold valves are for cartridge forks. The fork on the NC is a damper fork...
They work by having a small hole for small bumps and a spring loaded big hole for big bumps. You can adjust the spring for firm or soft damping.
L.B.S. said:*** could it actually be continuously bottoming out so badly that I am mistaking it for being way too stiff?
The forks are not bottoming. The single channel compression damping in the NC fork is essentially a hole in the damper rod through which suspension fluid flows. If the suspension is moving up and down slowly, all is well. But, if you hit a fast change in road surface like a pothole or a step increase like a board or a big rock or something, then when the fork tries to move quickly, it simply can't push the fluid through the hole fast enough. Since the suspension can't adjust fast enough, the whole bike moves. What is needed are separate high and low speed compression damping circuits so that when a fast step change comes along, the fork switches to a larger orifice than can flow enough fluid to allow the suspension to quickly move with the changing road surface. If the single circuit had a large enough port for good fast damping, it would be horribly underdamped at low speeds. This is a budget suspension. In my view it is the most unfortunate shortcut they took to make this a low cost motorcycle and that is why it was one of the first things I changed. There is no spring or fluid change that can give it what it needs. The RaceTech emulators provide high and low speed tunable compression and rebound damping. It seems impossible, but the suspension can be made firmer but still have better compliance and comfort than the stock set-up. Win-win. Einstein said that "a thing should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." In the case of the NC front suspension, they made it so simple that it was ineffective. It needs to be a bit more complicated.
It amazes me the number of people who think nothing of bolting on a different muffler for $500 because they want a different sound, but they don't want to spend $500 on the suspension and are looking for a $100 cure.