Suspension rip off
Posted: May 10th, '14, 01:52
A while ago I had front springs put in my little bike to try and increase the handling capabilities and make it safer on the track. Had new springs and oil, a complete set up both front forks and rear shock. Thought it was brilliant and was loving it, but my bike was always needing adjustments when taking corners and back was all over the place especially when damp! Thought it was my lack of experience on tracks. This continued for a while until i went to a different garage to have a bazazz fitted in Bristol. They were extremely concerned when they were just pushing the bike in and out of the garage about it's suspension. To cut a long story short (thank god i hear you day) It turns out I was lucky to be alive! The front forks had far to much oil in them, a much heavy duty spring and spacers had been hacked down with a hacksaw to try and compensate for this, and absolutely no rebound in them, hence the continuous adjustments around corners and the rear shock set up was abismal with absolutely no sag whatsoever! Basically really dangerous
I did not pursue it further with the garage who did the initial work, or Ktec as it was their stuff i had fitted by them, as I had the work corrected and ended up paying out for better upgrade to cheer me up
My only big worry is this garage does a lot of this type of upgrade and set ups, but I hope my bike was a one off cock up.
So I guess the moral is to really investigate and ask questions. Talk to them and others who know what they are talking about, not just mates on bikes who really don't know much like me or teh say so from a post on a forum. Don't simply turn up at a garage cos you saw it on a forum without really delving in and asking what they will do etc. if they are genuine they won't mind the questions
You can't see what's been done and take it for granted it's been done professionally and safely.
My bike puts out 175 Bhp at the wheel and I really was putting myself at risk and the racing team who did the work said they wouldn't even ride it round the corner in the condition it was in. I asked questions and googled them asked others etc before I had the remedial work done and learned a valuable lesson ! Our bikes are extremely safe machines if looked after but deadly if not correctly worked on
I did not pursue it further with the garage who did the initial work, or Ktec as it was their stuff i had fitted by them, as I had the work corrected and ended up paying out for better upgrade to cheer me up
My only big worry is this garage does a lot of this type of upgrade and set ups, but I hope my bike was a one off cock up.
So I guess the moral is to really investigate and ask questions. Talk to them and others who know what they are talking about, not just mates on bikes who really don't know much like me or teh say so from a post on a forum. Don't simply turn up at a garage cos you saw it on a forum without really delving in and asking what they will do etc. if they are genuine they won't mind the questions
You can't see what's been done and take it for granted it's been done professionally and safely.
My bike puts out 175 Bhp at the wheel and I really was putting myself at risk and the racing team who did the work said they wouldn't even ride it round the corner in the condition it was in. I asked questions and googled them asked others etc before I had the remedial work done and learned a valuable lesson ! Our bikes are extremely safe machines if looked after but deadly if not correctly worked on
Just need a 2008 zx10 linkage and a spacer. job jobbed