Sports: Re: [DucatiST] ST4S rear preload with pillion

I'm playing with mine also this year since we will be doing mostly two up riding.
I'm thinking of setting enough pre-load so that the sag is the same as with me alone.
I may have to up the spring rate.

I asked a while back but can someone tell me if the uprated ohlins will fit the stock
showa shock on the rear of my 99?

Robert McNabb
Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia
ST4 1999 RED

--- On Sun, 4/3/11, Ian Ellison <ian@ianellison.org.uk> wrote:

From: Ian Ellison <ian@ianellison.org.uk>
Subject: [DucatiST] ST4S rear preload with pillion
To: "St2_Owners" <st2_owners@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sunday, April 3, 2011, 7:26 PM

Next weekend I'm off to an event with my bike club in Hay on Wye. It's the
one weekend of the year my better half comes with me. We'll come back with
panniers loaded with cheap books from the second hand stores, so I will need
to crank the rear preload up. Given I'm a big lad, 18st/250lb/110kg, and Mrs
E is - errm - not tiny (nor huge!) and we'll have some heavy luggage, do I
just crank it to the max or is there some science behind how many turns to
add?

TIA,

IanE