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You want to measure from the tip of the tube, not from the top of the cap.

@@bubbapauli yeah thanks i found that out earlier. Turns out i had notches for 5mm up

Not too much now but it was tough for awhile

Your the best rider for me ​@@bubbapauli

This is more of a balance adjustment, because you’re lengthening the wheel base. If you’re talking about collapsing, that would be a suspension adjustment issue

Mikuni. Adam Wright helped me jet it and she’s solid now

I’ll do my best at adding more🤙🏼

yes you would have the same effects, but I would be cautious sliding the forks up (shortening the wheel base) as that could create poor handling at higher speeds. the spring tension (sag) on the rear could also make a big difference for you.

@@bubbapauli Thank you for the Input..

Agreed: sounds like you have too much preload in the rear spring. Set sag (both ends) to something reasonable before assessing that you need to raise or lower the front end. Eg. I've seen bikes with way too much preload spacers in the front. (Happens when they are trying to make the bike 'stiff for racing,' and/or trying to combat dive in the wrong way, both common mistakes) They didn't need the forks raised, they needed to pull out preload spacers, so the front wasn't sitting high and popping up excessively. In your case, it sounds like someone was either a heavier rider but not buying a new spring, 2 upping, or _thought_ stiffening it excessively would improve its performance. Instead, it just made it hoppy and harsh. Combining a hoppy high riding rear + lowering the front would most likely end up with a dangerous combo where bumps make the bike want to dart or the rear to skip outward then try to highside you in a corner. (think of it like carrying something heavy up stairs... but instead of the strong person at the bottom, you put the weak person there. Every tip or bump shifts more weight onto the weak person, who almost collapses and wanders all over trying to recover, while the strong side is barely carrying any of the weight)

5mm is not a tiny adjustment to fork height or to sag...

Absolutely

If they have the tool and know how to use it, it will only take a few minutes but they will also have a detach the adapter from the wiring harness which consists of removing the take to get to. Once detached it can stay free and will be accessible for the next use. Regardless, most business won’t change a map in any machine for less than $200. If I have friends that want a map changed they will give me $40-$50 but because they know it’s valuable and not everyone can do it

@@bubbapauli ok no worries , thanks for the info 👌. It sounds like it’s not too unreasonable then . I’ll take it in to them and get it done I’d say , thanks again . Also , have you had any issue with the super responsive bottom end off of about 5% throttle . Like on and off like a light switch ? This is the issue I’m trying to iron out . There’s no roll on it just comes on all of a sudden . Rode a 23 ktm 450 and it was so much easier to get out of corners and get power down

For supercross I prefer to make the bike even more aggressive right off the bottom than it already is but you can change that very dramatically with the mapping on this bike

Good times!

Great question! Yes you can but if you raise the forks it can make the handling worse in high speed areas of riding

When the wheel base is shorter the bike turns tighter, easier but when it’s longer it will follow a rut easier with less resistance. Yes you can achieve the same thing with the sag but a lot of times we want to leave the sag in a certain spot to keep a specific rear end feel

@@bubbapauli Food for thought! Thanks

@@bubbapauli Thanks for that explanation. Keeping the same rear feel makes a lot of sense. Do you mostly ride tight tracks? I'm wondering if your normal setting is a bike that likes to dart more than most of us have ours set.

@@MaintDocs yes typically most of the tracks I ride are tight but I still ride big tracks every couple weeks

Try it and you'll be surprised how much you will feel a little adjustment of your forks. I thought the same as you and was way wrong.

I thought the same thing, I was having a hard time following corners on my 2017 crf450r, put forks up flush… Big difference, I didnt think as a average rider that I would notice, but its true…

That's what the mind would think, but the reality is even an incompetent gumby newish rider can easily tell the difference between 2mm in the front, even if they don't know how to describe or even what changed. Just that it changed and feels different. "its not kicking as much" "it feel better in that corner" What people are thinking is, my own weight or a bump makes way bigger difference than that. Partly true. But how does the bike react: When your weight comes off? (so the bike is free to shift where it wants to go) When it's landing with momentum? (so it's much more than just simple weight) When you hit a rock while following a rut? (unless you are gifted with xray vision) Can you mitigate that with body positioning? Yes, but you have to move more to do that, and if you aren't always in the right spot, it's going to show that ugly behavior. 2mm can easily be the difference between a bike that wants to follow a rut or pop out when you hit something. You already had your body where it needed to be to keep the front bit in but not too low, now you hit that rock and the right body position just rapidly changed _because the bike isn't balanced._ For a moment, everything is wrong, but if you try to correct for that, a moment later it's changing rapidly back the other way. It's going to be hard to flick your body rapidly enough to _compensate for a bike problem._ Out of the rut you go. Hitting some braking bumps before a turn? Maybe some whoops (even at slow-medium speed)? You will notice the difference between a balanced bike and one where the front wants to pop up, causing extra rear load/hooking effect, which leads to extra front impact, which pops up even more... power teeter-totter. Since it's a feedbacking oscillation, a small change in the right direction has a huge quelling effect (the front no longer causes a worse rear reaction so the cycle doesn't start). Or the front loads too much and sinks in. That can go bad a couple ways. Would you like to approach every whoops section expecting your bike to try to endo you?

Thanks! That was the goal, glad it worked out that way!

Not this time

Ok I’ll see you Saturday at St. Louis

How’s your leg feel from that crash the other day

Awesome! Hopefully in may I will be back

@@bubbapauli awsome maybe me and my friend will be like you and Cartwright

Is Cartwright still racing with y’all

@@eastoncooper2800 yep!!!

@@eastoncooper2800 you can be like anything if you work hard! ✊🏼

Oh yeah! I’m good though

@@bubbapauli you going to be racing April 9

@@eastoncooper2800 oh yeah!!!

I’ll be there to !

I wont be out long and yes I’ll be training this summer! See you there!

That’s a good idea! I’ll work on that soon! Thanks for the suggestion! ✊🏼

Unfortunately it’s private only

Yep all good!

@@bubbapauli good your bike sounds good !!

😂😂 anytime

@@bubbapauli Think you can do a tutorial on how to dump the clutch and land on your back doing a start? I'm gonna practice up and have my very own goon/squid Epic Crashes youtube vid. I'm just scared to get hurt figuring it out to be honest.

@@bm7376 hahaha that’s a good idea, I’ll work on that

@@bubbapauli Thanks, it's not every day a pro supercross racer will help out the "other" riding style. Well Adam C has his own lifetime series, but his hurt way too much for me. Do an old guy training day at DEMX this year :) That track looks pretty dope for around here.

@@bm7376 vet only training, on it!!

Thanks!

Thanks! Catch me this weekend in San Diego

Will you be raceing April 9 th

Yep, all 17 rounds of the series

I’ll be there sorry I was in basketball practice

Do you play super cross 4

oh yeah thats a big one! my mechanic almost had the same thing!

Appreciate it!

I love it!! Always appreciate it!

Diff bend maybe? I run pretty strait stuff. More sag?

Thanks! I’ll make some more during the supercross season. I would suggest trying the devol transformer pull rod, giving you the option to set it at the stock length or lowering the rear end without being stuck with one specific size. Also check out the pheonix handlebars, their 80mm bar is amazing, it has quite a bit of sweep but is super relaxing after a few laps.

@@bubbapauli thank you.

Are you riding in old style frog stance or in more modern twerk stance? In frog stance, that's going to be hard to correct, but in twerk stance, you control that by how much you lean up & down (over the bars) and with a little up and back direction of the posterior end.