Hi all,
I wanted to let you all know my experience with replacing the front progressive springs back to the original oem's with the intims in place.
Whilst I haven't been able to test the difference on a road trip, I have ridden a couple of hundred K's on long highway type roads mixed in with urban tar.
There is no doubt in my mind the intims and with it the front suspension works even better with the OEM springs. This is a good thing as my suspension is now what I always hoped I could get it to be like. That I have some progressive front springs in a box isn't what I expected though, but whatever, my bike is riding even better than before and I'm very happy with the outcome.
I should mention that when I wrote my initial report I had a load for travelling quite a long distance and all my observations were a result of this.
I did think that when I came home and took my load off, the front forks appeared to be stiffer than when on the trip.
Anyway, IMHO the intims work better with the original springs, 5wt oil and a 166mm air gap.
I believe others may have already worked this one out but it's taken me a while to swap over the springs and hence the wait.
I would be surprised if anyone else didn't also think the intims work better with the original springs and fwiw, after speaking to the Ricor staff, they too think the front work better with the oem's.
stacka
