Front suspension?

[pechorin75_imp]

If the forks have been opened, the wrong fluid height would cause this also.

As Ack mentioned, it sounds like there might be too much fork oil installed. This would allow the initial sag to occur when sitting on the bike, but once you've reached maximum compression for the amount of oil in the tubes, I don't believe that it's going to give any more. The end result would be a very small amount of travel left to absorb bumps and such.

Reading the service manual, it would appear that simply removing the forks and checking/correcting the fluid level is a (relatively) simple procedure. And if I'm understanding correctly what the others have said, taking the forks out of the triple clamps entirely ought to resolve any potential binding issues...so I'm thinking that's what I'll try.

Reading the service manual, it would appear that simply removing the forks and checking/correcting the fluid level is a (relatively) simple procedure. And if I'm understanding correctly what the others have said, taking the forks out of the triple clamps entirely ought to resolve any potential binding issues...so I'm thinking that's what I'll try.
You have to remove the forks from the triple tree to adjust fluid level huh? Is that pretty typical? I don't have to with my old KZ. You just jack the front wheel off the ground, remove the top bolt and measure the distance from the top of the inner tube to the oil level. Then you just add or drain oil till your measurement is at spec.

I'm not sure...might be able to do it that way, though might need to remove the handlebar, and I'm not sure if measuring at an angle would complicate matters. I was planning on removing them from the triple clamps because of an earlier suggestion that there might be some binding going on at that level.