Recently I noticed my suspension is a bit on the soft side and rear suspension is bottoming out when two up, I assume that when you change the settings from One - Two up, Touring to Sports etc you should hear the spring motor whirring changing the spring compression etc, Mine is silent and shows no difference in handling, The dash hasn't thrown up any faults hence why putting the question on forum before going to the trouble of booking in dealers unnecessarily.
Yep - stand next to the bike with ignition on and engine off, you should hear a whirring and notice a difference in seat height when you change modes.
Agree with spl. If you're sitting on the bike and adjust from one to two up, you'll feel the saddle height increasing. However, my rear suspension bottomed coming back from Silverstone with pillion and luggage even though I had two up plus luggage selected. Kevin
This all depends on your settings. Are you talking about an ohlins or skyhook bike ? If an ohlins, and on standard settings, when you change from solo to any other setting it should adjust the spring preload. You should hear the preload motor whir as described above. This is the long gold tube under the riders seat at the back. Its just a stepper motor attached to a piston within the tube. If it isn't making a noise then I would expect you to see a DES fault on the display. If it is whiring, follow the hose that comes off the left end of it and down to the adjuster platform on the top of the spring. Next thing to check, does it look oily ? Also, does the hose feel loose where it goes into the platform adjuster ? If the answer is yes to either of these, you need the platform adjuster rebuilding with new seals because its lost it fluid. Its hydraulic, and the seals dont last for ever (mine failed after ~20k miles, mainly 2 up touring). Cost to replace / rebuild is about 100 quid for a loose shock. If you take the bike in then expect more labour charges. I had mine done by Steve Jordan Motorcycles, but any ohlins specialist should be able to do it, or if your really handy yourself you could possibly do it. Two things to note: 1) ohlins service centres probably wont have the kit to cycle the servo, which is necessary to bleed it properly. 2) set the servo to rider only to start with, so it pulls the piston back in order to get max fluid in to start with. Hope that helps.
Thanks John I,ll check (its Ohlins) Sometimes there is whiring as it adjusts, othertimes nothing when changing from one mode to another or from solo to two up settings, no DES fault display. I,ll check the adjuster but couldn't see an evidence of oil when I cleaned it the other day, I,ve got 2 months left on the warranty so will likely get it looked at.
