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05 Honda 450 fork valving operation?
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[QUOTE="JamesM, post: 903636, member: 31570"] Thanks for the suggestions, Marcus. These forks are used by my two son's who ride local pro level mx. Their opinion is that they are the best stock forks they have used and we are looking for small improvements. We tried a slightly softer midvalve and slightly stiffer springs (tested.47 vs.46 stock), both independently and together. I also noticed that Honda had increased spring preload by approximately 5mm to about 8mm in conjunction with reducing the spring rate for 05. Resetting this to about 3.5 mm with the .47 spring produced the plushest set up so far with no serious compromises. I consider these minor changes with minor but positive results. Testing is always time consuming and not always precise but having two bikes and identical twin riders helps alot. They do not feel the current set up needs further compression reduction and we will mull over some options for really large braking bumps and other extreme conditions. FYI on the 02's we had some good results from increasing midvalve shim stiffness and increasing float from .25 mm to .3 mm. This seemed to allow more low/moderate speed plushness while retaining higher speed control. [/QUOTE]
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