Front Suspension

[nikitino]

The front suspension on my Country 500 is to stiff. I recently had the fork oil changed and filled the fork oil to the recommended Country fill amount which is a bit more than on the Tour model. I think these bikes have the same front forks if i'm not mistaken. Can i just remove some of the fork oil, like maybe down to the Tour level and obtain softer forks that way? Also i noticed that there are solid metal one inch or so spacers on top of the springs. Anyone know if these are a stock part of the forks or maybe previous owner added them? I would also like to score some progressive fork springs that would fit and work well but haven't found any. Any suggestions or comments appreciated.....

[comanche91]

The front suspension on my Country 500 is to stiff. I recently had the fork oil changed and filled the fork oil to the recommended Country fill amount which is a bit more than on the Tour model. I think these bikes have the same front forks if i'm not mistaken. Can i just remove some of the fork oil, like maybe down to the Tour level and obtain softer forks that way? Also i noticed that there are solid metal one inch or so spacers on top of the springs. Anyone know if these are a stock part of the forks or maybe previous owner added them? I would also like to score some progressive fork springs that would fit and work well but haven't found any. Any suggestions or comments appreciated.....

I looked in my MZ500 parts manual and there were no spacers on top of the springs for all models. , so they must have been added. Wirth makes progressive fork springs for our bikes; see them all the time on Ebay Germany. I looking for a set a bit closer to home. Also what viscosity fork oil are you using? My forks were too soft for my taste, and I swapped from SAE 5 oil to SAE 15 and now they are just right.

[nikitino]

I used 15w so i might try to go down to 10w or 5w. I think i will take those spacers out first to see what that does. Good to know also that progressive springs are available.....probably not cheap though.