high or low rear suspension?

[reed]

I was considering lowering my rear shock a little as it has been on it's highest position since I bought the bike in June, will lowering it down a little have any handling benefits? Thanks for any information
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Depends what you mean by lower setting. Do you mean just backing off the preload, or does your bike have a height adjustment? If the 2nd you will probably just slow the handling a bit, if the 1st it will do this AND possibly upset the suspension.

All the best

Keith
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[AlexW]

I have mine on the highest, I believe supposed to help turn in (forks are dropped through yokes already anyway), but mostly because I take a lot of pillions and having it on its highest means my headlight isn't aimed towards the sky when I have my fat mate aboard.

[reed]

It's just a height adjustment, I did think that having it higher would be better, but just thought I'd check, also someone was selling a 'lowered' hagon shock on ebay, so I was curious thanks for the info btw
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[Slacker24seve...]

If its for a Hornet, the rear is pretty uncivilised whatever the setting. Just set the sag correctly and ride it.
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[reed]

The rear suspension doesn't feel to bad to me tbh, wouldn't say uncivilised at all, I was just curious whether it was worth buying a new lower shock.
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[evoboy]

Why would you want it lower? Unless you cant touch the floor when sitting on it?
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[reed]

I don't really want it lower, just wondered how it would affect the handling, because someone is selling a hagon 'lowered' shock on eBay
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[Eddie Hitler]

Would make steering slower I would have thought?

[cyberglass]

Theres a website where people of all different weights have put there best settings in on there bikes. cant seem to find it on my phone will post it when i get home.

Anyway you just select the closest weight to you and use the settings they have used then tweak till you get something to your preference.
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