Rear ride height

[speedfiend41]

Do the RS250's have rear ride height adjustment? Mine looks a bit low at the back - sagging spring or badly adjusted?

[ghezzi]

Bottom shock mount on Mk2 had a ride height adjuster, there was a special tool to make the job easier.

[speedfiend41]

Bottom shock mount on Mk2 had a ride height adjuster, there was a special tool to make the job easier.

Cheers for that. I'll see if I can get hold of one.

[DanRS500]

Have you set the static sag properly? I would look at that before you start playing with ride height adjustment...

[gangus]

I found that with the stock spring I had to preload it the whole way, and it still wasnt right.... but im fat.
As dan said, set your sags first.
I wound the rebound on the rear all the way off as it is way too slow.
I think im at around 13 clicks on compression from all in.
Set in the middle and add until it drives clean out of a sweeping corner instead of squirreling.

[speedfiend41]

Well I'm 98 kg but I'm not going to say I'm fat! Haven't looked at any of the suspension adjustments or sag measurements yet - just that to my eye it looks a bit arse end low.

I wonder how well the shock and adjusters have held up - it's 12 years and 23k km old after all...

Still in rebuild stage - I should be ready for a decent ride in a week or so.

[RossoOz]

Well i have just picked up my 2000 plate 7600 k bike old bike back up from the local suspension dude, and being 95kgs, I've got new spec springs in both the forks and rear shock. Revalve for the fork, comp and rebound, spring rate now .85, 5 w oil, standard spec level.
Rear shock, revalve comp and rebound, Seal head, reoil and regas, New rear spring 8kg Ohlins
Bike was set for hard sports riding, good for me being a slow to med pace track rider.
With new springs front and rear, static sag came in at between 30-35 mm front and rear, with no adjustment needed.
He did comment that the fork oil smelt really bad and was really dirty. No surprise since the bike suspension probably hadn't been serviced since it was built. He did like the front fork design, responsed well to being tweaked, and while the rear shock isn't of the highest quality, he said its still good with a rebuild, and I shouldn't need to spend any money on a replacement Ohlins.

[speedfiend41]

That is gold! Thanks mate - I'll be doing the same with mine once I sort out the bent subframe, new tyres and crash damage from the previous owner.

Bloody money pits these things...

[speedfiend41]

Can I be rude and ask you how much that came to?

[RossoOz]

800 bucks was the cost, with new forks seals too. Just a touch under 400 for the forks,a and a touch over 400 for the rear shock service. I was pretty happy about the rear shock having only to spend 400 bucks to get it working well, v spending upwards 1500 bucks on an Ohlins rear shock or similar.
Best money I've spent on the bike so far. as for being a money pit, I do agree but I reckon I'm still a long way in front compared to one of those shit box 4 stokes. ( I still own a R6 haha)

[olfart]

Well i have just picked up my 2000 plate 7600 k bike old bike back up from the local suspension dude, and being 95kgs, I've got new spec springs in both the forks and rear shock. Revalve for the fork, comp and rebound, spring rate now .85, 5 w oil, standard spec level.
Rear shock, revalve comp and rebound, Seal head, reoil and regas, New rear spring 8kg Ohlins
Bike was set for hard sports riding, good for me being a slow to med pace track rider.
With new springs front and rear, static sag came in at between 30-35 mm front and rear, with no adjustment needed.
He did comment that the fork oil smelt really bad and was really dirty. No surprise since the bike suspension probably hadn't been serviced since it was built. He did like the front fork design, responsed well to being tweaked, and while the rear shock isn't of the highest quality, he said its still good with a rebuild, and I shouldn't need to spend any money on a replacement Ohlins.

So, sounds great. Would you care to share who this genius is please? My suspension could handle some tweaking by somebody who knows what they're doing.

Linz

[RossoOz]

This is the link to the shop, mite be a bit too far away for you as hes in Canberra,

http://suspensionsmith.com

Laurie? (spelling) is the Bloke, first time I've dealt with him, but pretty much all the forums chat (canberra riders) around the ACT is positive and they seem to rave about him.

I'm going to get him to look at my wifes RS250 and my R6.

[Ooky]

what weight springs front and rear were used as am about to over haul my suspension and am around that weight also

cheers
scott

[RossoOz]

http://racetech.com/ProductSearch/2/...S250/1997-2002

You can use this site to cal your required spring rate if you want.

Fork spring in mine now is .85, standard is .714 and the rear spring is now 8kg from a standard 6.1kg. I think the standard spring rate for this bike is to suit someone around the 60-65 kgs mark, which was one of the main factors in me spending the money to "fix" the suspension since I'm a long way from that weight anymore, 30 plus kgs and about 25years ago haha.

[2T Institute]

The $400 you spent on the Sachs shock would have been better put toward a Nitron shock from the UK. A hi/low speed 22 click comp rebound with ride height adjuster is <$900 AUD.