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Went out on the Daytona Saturday and have a suspension tuning question for any of you tuning pro's ...
This is the first bike that I've had that offers me full adjustable front & rear suspension. I got baseline settings from a Triumph owners website for my weight, which seemed to be a pretty good place to start. I think that I have a good handle on the front settings and these seem easier to me to "feel", but I think that the rear has something off.
I was leaning pretty hard into a corner that had a series of decent bumps in the middle of it (not frost heaves, but larger than ripples). About 1/2 way through the bumps the bike started what I can best describe as a leaned over "wabble". I let off the throttle a bit and totally blew the corner (actually crossed the yellow line - yikes!). It was a corner that I could see through with no problem so there was no issue with oncoming traffic.
My question is whether playing with the rebound or compression damping can solve this? I do not have a feel for how the rear will respond to changes in these settings.
I will admit that for the amount of lean that I had going on, my body was probably not far enough off to the inside (lazy previous VFR rider ). I don't yet have knee pucks and don't think that I should have them for the street anyway, because I would likely try to use them.
BTW - I had to back off the front rebound damping from the setting that I went to from the triumph site because the front wheel was getting very loose feeling even driving of turns with moderate throttle. Almost feeling like it wanted to start a tank-slapper. Changing the rebound just one turn seems to have solved this.