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Over the last week or so I have noticed that on cornereing my bike doesn't track exactly how I figure it should. I checked tire pressures and it was all ok, only about 5000kms on the Z8's so plenty of life there still.
Tha handling is like hitting a tar snake or riding along a white lane marking that has been done with heaps of paint or like ridingacross tram tracks, only not as bad, just enough to make me keep thinking I'm not riding right???!!!
Yesterday I stopped to do a spot of shopping and in Melbourne we can park on the footpath(sidewalk), so as i left I just slowly went of the curb and the front end felt like it was about to bottom out. It is certainly pretty easy to get a bounce going. I also feel like its dropped as I can nearly flat foot it and I know when I bought it I was on the balls of my feet. I guess as it has sagged a bit I have got used to it.
Anyway, this morning I booked in for seals and fresh fork oil. The bike has done 30,000kms roughly. I take it in on Monday morning
any further advice, or experience you might be able to offer? I did talk to the mech about running 10w oil as opposed to the 5-7w that apparently comes as stock. That's one of the tips I read about a while back
I'm not looking to do a big mod, as I generaly use the FZ as a commuter and have been pretty happy with the set up as it has been.
I'll keep you posted as to what they find.
Tha handling is like hitting a tar snake or riding along a white lane marking that has been done with heaps of paint or like ridingacross tram tracks, only not as bad, just enough to make me keep thinking I'm not riding right???!!!
Yesterday I stopped to do a spot of shopping and in Melbourne we can park on the footpath(sidewalk), so as i left I just slowly went of the curb and the front end felt like it was about to bottom out. It is certainly pretty easy to get a bounce going. I also feel like its dropped as I can nearly flat foot it and I know when I bought it I was on the balls of my feet. I guess as it has sagged a bit I have got used to it.
Anyway, this morning I booked in for seals and fresh fork oil. The bike has done 30,000kms roughly. I take it in on Monday morning
any further advice, or experience you might be able to offer? I did talk to the mech about running 10w oil as opposed to the 5-7w that apparently comes as stock. That's one of the tips I read about a while back
I'm not looking to do a big mod, as I generaly use the FZ as a commuter and have been pretty happy with the set up as it has been.
I'll keep you posted as to what they find.