- Jan 25, 2000
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“Yep, I’m gonna take my suspension to the XYZ Boinger Shop and then she’ll ride like a Hovercraft fo’sho.” That’s the kind of stuff I hear when someone is about to fork over 500+ hard earned dollars to get their suspension “done” (and their wallet “well done”).
Case in point - I was having a casual chat with a guy at the track, and he says, “Yeah, I just spent 500 bucks to get my suspension done, but I don’t know…….”. A moment of remorse and dejection initially wash over his face, but no more than a few seconds later, his face lit up and it’s like he’s seen Nirvana. “ Ooooooooohhh, it’s like I’m floating on a cloud now”. Then his mouth purses and his eyes close like he’s getting a nice warm enema …“Aaaaahhh”. Now, when I’m watching this Oscar performance, my first thought is that he’s doing everything he can to convince himself that it was money well spent (to lessen the sting).
Okay, okay … a 150 lb slow guy needs a different setup than a 250 lb fast guy … it’s common sense. So suspension tuners are still needed. If you have friends, relatives (including illegitimate children) in the suspension biz, there’s no need to get defensive.
But what really bugs me is when someone says, “I had the suspension done on my new bike before I even rode it”. What the ….? How did he know what he needed and how did he know if it was better if he didn’t even ride the bike first? This makes no sense to me and, in my opinion, the guy did this so he wouldn’t have to go through the disappointment of spending big bucks and having the suspension come back worse than stock. What you don’t know can’t hurt you.
And then we have that famous line -“The stock suspension on my new bike is better than my revalved, gold plated megabuck suspension on my old bike (from last year)”. Well, maybe your suspension tuner isn’t that great after all.
You can do a shim shuffle, but in the end, all your suspension does is go “up, down, up down, boing, boing, boing.” There’s no magic – leave the “floating on a cloud” part in your dreams.
:fft:
Case in point - I was having a casual chat with a guy at the track, and he says, “Yeah, I just spent 500 bucks to get my suspension done, but I don’t know…….”. A moment of remorse and dejection initially wash over his face, but no more than a few seconds later, his face lit up and it’s like he’s seen Nirvana. “ Ooooooooohhh, it’s like I’m floating on a cloud now”. Then his mouth purses and his eyes close like he’s getting a nice warm enema …“Aaaaahhh”. Now, when I’m watching this Oscar performance, my first thought is that he’s doing everything he can to convince himself that it was money well spent (to lessen the sting).
Okay, okay … a 150 lb slow guy needs a different setup than a 250 lb fast guy … it’s common sense. So suspension tuners are still needed. If you have friends, relatives (including illegitimate children) in the suspension biz, there’s no need to get defensive.
But what really bugs me is when someone says, “I had the suspension done on my new bike before I even rode it”. What the ….? How did he know what he needed and how did he know if it was better if he didn’t even ride the bike first? This makes no sense to me and, in my opinion, the guy did this so he wouldn’t have to go through the disappointment of spending big bucks and having the suspension come back worse than stock. What you don’t know can’t hurt you.
And then we have that famous line -“The stock suspension on my new bike is better than my revalved, gold plated megabuck suspension on my old bike (from last year)”. Well, maybe your suspension tuner isn’t that great after all.
You can do a shim shuffle, but in the end, all your suspension does is go “up, down, up down, boing, boing, boing.” There’s no magic – leave the “floating on a cloud” part in your dreams.
:fft: