Super sensitive suspension

[GHEZZI]

Had a hot 2-sroke road bike once that needed carby needles raised/lowered depending on weather conditions.

At 6am yesterday about 2*C and I headed for the mountains, got a monthly therapy session that requires a 450klm ride , a sicky , and a long weekend . Who said Dr's don't know shit?................. Works for me.

Anyway, couldn't get any heat into the suspension, let alone the tyres, tapped up the oil cooler to get it to 80*C.

The suspension was very firm, like somebody messed with my clickers etc, all came good in the afternoon ride home, sweeeeeeeeet! I have noticed slight changes with suspension in cold weather on other bikes but the Hyper is well, hyper-sensitive. I may have to develop summer/winter settings.

[ZoeTard]

Good to know so I'm not SHOCKED by the change in ride when the temps start to drop here in a few months, keep that susp info coming

[GHEZZI]

Hey, any of you Go hards with OCD and HDD had experience with this, as in found that -? clicks compression and -? click rebound was needed when ambient temperature dropped below whatever degrees?

[PedroHM]

funny you should mention that, i was wondering if your 5w oil change might be too soft come when the ambient gets upto that nice QLD 30+c. here is syd I found that when it was a nice 18c in the morning the bike would be hard as nails and on the way home when its a cooking 25+ it was perfect, always felt like someone had fu*ked with the adjustment during the day. there can easily be a 5c+ difference from where i live by the sea and where i work is shitsville.

when i picked up the hyper at the end of summer it seemed a lot nicer than now when i could get the tires super sticky and the forked felt plusher.

will be interesting to see, I don't think other the yanks get the day to day temp changes we get here, its either hot or cold.

[infidel]

I rode down to Canberra and back over the weekend and sat on 130-140 the whole way and it was cold as hell but even when i was going past Goulburn I never saw below 80 degrees. 140 = 5,000rpm which is why it might have been a bit warmer. I also noticed the suspension was stiffer for about the first hour which was weird as I was on the freeway. Only noticed the harshness on the concrete sections though

[GHEZZI]

I would suspect a certain amount of heat transfer from rear cylinder and exhaust to the shock and resevoir, but on a cold day it wouldn't have the effect it does in summer. But that still leaves the front end out in the breeze.

Does this mean we use 7.5w for summer and 2.5w for winter? I think I need electronically controlled active suspension that can tell the difference between the dreaded 'Red Mist' and a 'Skirt".