Here's what's in my garage for 2018

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I’ll agree the earlier bike is a bit harsh on hard impacts.

I’d imagine it is difficult to design ‘soft’ enough to move quickly and absorb in such cases but not be mush when rode aggressively.

(see brake dive into turns mentioned above somewhere)

And not even taking weight differences into factor.

That being said, I wonder if we all wouldn’t be surprised if we could get off our CB and onto whatever our favorite older bike was from decades ago.

All I can tell you from my first hand experience is I put the 2017 forks on my bike and it is much more comfortable to me.

So much so that I then became critical of the rear and put Koni shocks on. Again a noticeable improvement- even the wife acknowledges.


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Not difficult but expensive. Damping must behave differently at high and low speed. Also having separate compression/rebound damping adjustments and hi/lo speed circuits. Springs must be designed correctly, much more meticulously. Materials, thickness, rates, coil spacing. The bike that feels overly firm on the showroom floor will probably ride with more comfort and compliance than the one that feels like a pogo stick. Dynamics of weight, velocity, impact of bumps.

I’ll agree the earlier bike is a bit harsh on hard impacts.

I’d imagine it is difficult to design ‘soft’ enough to move quickly and absorb in such cases but not be mush when rode aggressively.

(see brake dive into turns mentioned above somewhere)

And not even taking weight differences into factor.

That being said, I wonder if we all wouldn’t be surprised if we could get off our CB and onto whatever our favorite older bike was from decades ago.

All I can tell you from my first hand experience is I put the 2017 forks on my bike and it is much more comfortable to me.

So much so that I then became critical of the rear and put Koni shocks on. Again a noticeable improvement- even the wife acknowledges.


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I really think the "Don't know, it just goes" philosophy is very often the best.

I’ll agree the earlier bike is a bit harsh on hard impacts.

I’d imagine it is difficult to design ‘soft’ enough to move quickly and absorb in such cases but not be mush when rode aggressively.

(see brake dive into turns mentioned above somewhere)

And not even taking weight differences into factor.

That being said, I wonder if we all wouldn’t be surprised if we could get off our CB and onto whatever our favorite older bike was from decades ago.

All I can tell you from my first hand experience is I put the 2017 forks on my bike and it is much more comfortable to me.

So much so that I then became critical of the rear and put Koni shocks on. Again a noticeable improvement- even the wife acknowledges.


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You mean Ikons, no?