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Old Riders With Full Floater Experience
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[QUOTE="MXKyle, post: 1413602, member: 56470"] I spent 10 years racing Suzuki during that era. The '82 was bashed by the magazines has having 'pro only' power. I don't know about that but I did pull holeshots in the local money class against open bikes. In '83 I moved up to a RM500 and that ranks high on my 'best bikes ever' list. The full floater did work pretty good but the forks pretty much sucked. Over the years the suspension has gotten a lot stiffer with much larger diameter forks. With the larger forks we lost a lot of flex that actually reduced some of the shock transmitted to our hands. Don't get me wrong the new forks are still much better. Riding styles have changed a lot over the years. In 82 you learned to keep the front end light and ride the back wheel through rough. Today's bikes have heavier front ends and are designed more for the rider to keep the bike neutral over the bumps and crash the front tire right into the obstacle. We have all seen the top riders just skimming across the tops of the whoops. In order to actually make that work the forks have to be set up differently than they were back then. It is also a matter of the fact that the motocross bikes are designed to be ridden aggressively. They simply are not designed to go slow. If you ride aggressively the forks of current bikes perform much better that those of yesteryear. Forks can be revalved to suit one riding style but in order to make them feel good cruising behind a kid they probably wont work well trying to go fast on a racetrack. --KT-- [/QUOTE]
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