Very happy with the 2.5’s on the front, revalved resprung with crossovers last night, …adding a lock ring for the preload adjuster. No wonder people are galling threads, with no lock backing the preload adjuster.
Was really disappointed in the appearance of the valving kit. The new pistons are the same as the old ones.
Soooo…. the next time I pull the rears apart, I plan to work on the old pistons and put them back in. I have worked on dirt bike suspension over 30 years and see lots of room for improvement.
The pistons show lots of ridges in the ports that I can’t help but feel is affecting the flow. I will use my porting tool to eradicate the ridges and blend and radius the entries.
Valving-wise, I will see how it feels and add whatever feels lacking. I don’t have any shims to fit the W.E. other than what I rob off the stock set-up.
I bought the last bunch of shims from Holz racing when I redid my 2009 800S.
Anyone know a better/cheaper source?
The type of riding I do: putting around seting up and staking offroadracing courses through the fields,gullies, rocks, etc.–90% of the time
Racing over said courses-10% of the time. ( but a very important part, launching up and over jumps, charging whoops, cornering flat )
Loving the xp1000 other than the cornering/ suspension performance.
Hopefully the back redo will help with cornering as well as bump absorption.
