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Pompetta and I set up the suspension on his any my bike yesterday afternoon, wow what a difference! The instructions that we used were fairly easy to follow. I will see if he can attach them to this topic. Thanks again for the help.

David

didn't see the instructions, but I'd love to take a look...

i'd like to see them as well. post em up!

+ eleventybillion

plz post. i want mine better.

I am trying to get Pompetta to post them up.

Tellem to hurry up!  I need a project for the weekend since rain is coming in [bang]

I posted them in the Tech board soon after the genesis of the DMF: http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=982.msg8143#msg8143

Dave how was  the ride after the setup?

LOL...completely different...in a GOOD way!!  [laugh]  [thumbsup]  [moto]

Virtually NO diving under hard braking.  Now all I need is new shoes, fit up the repaired midpipe, and some safety wiring!  [moto]

Are you going out to the Italian breakfast this Saturday Morning?

I might be riding to Wrightsville Beach with Donna (if it doesn't rain).  Wanna go?  We'd leave early (6am) to get easy parking.

That write up is missing something or im just missing it.  How do you set compression?  All it says is turn it way out so it is at it's softest.  The write up then goes to how to set your rebound than then never touches back on compression.  How am i suppose to know to stiffen up compression. 

How I read the write up is that the writer leaves the compression at the softest setting and thats it.  Am i missing something?

You're right, those instructions are missing steps for setting the compression damping.  I thought it mentioned that compression damping (unlike sag and rebound) requires a session or two of riding with adjustments in between.  However, no additional instructions are given.  I turned my in  a few clicks from the slowest setting.

BTW, I believe I wrote in that thread that those instructions came from a now defunct webstore/site.  So, there's little chance of the author adding to them.  If anyone would like to amend them, send me the text.

I watched a video this weekend that was also obscure about compression damping settings.

I think I may order the video series from Traxxion Dynamics. If I do, I'll evaluate the video set, and also post up what I learned from it.

Ok, one more question.  In the article, it mentions that to adjust the compression, you have to look at the bottom of the fork.  I dont see anything on my forks where something can be adjusted.  I swapped out my s2r800 forks to those of the s2r1000.  Can you point me in the right direction or does the s2r1000 forks have no way of adjusting compression?

pg 32 on the online manual shows it on the very bottom of the fork

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/prntman/SHoRaoEsPpI/AAAAAAAAAI4/XRKhAXc6BR4/S2R%201000%20fork.jpg?imgmax=640)

If you have the older adjustable showa's, its pretty obvious - its the dial protruding at teh south end of the forks pointing back towards the rest of the bike.

I kind of figured that.  I looked at my forks i took off and saw figured that.  The problem was that i dontthink my axle has a hole in it to slide a driver up into it.  It seems that i have to take off the wheel to adjust the compression but that does not make any sense at all.  I will see if rotating the axle around a little bit will show some sort of hole that goes through the axel to reach the adjustment screw.

If your bike originally came w/ comp. adj. forks your axle will have the holes in it.  Otherwise, you will have to drill the holes yourself or buy an axle with holes in it that fits your bike.

WOW!! Very helpfull.  I will be following those steps as soon as my clip-ons arrive and I get them installed!
Thanks for the post.   [clap]

I have an S2R800 so I don't think I can adjust much of anything.  It was setup at the dealers but I'm only 155 pounds so I think it could be better.  It's too bad though and I probably wouldn't know the difference unless I tried it. Showa forks would look much nicer on my bike though, especially with a Rizoma clip-on kit. :)