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Originally Posted by
offroadtoad
I've been wondering about fiddling with the spring preload on my Ten over the past few weeks, but feel a bit out of my depth. The bike seems to ride softer than it did 12 months ago when new. I've covered nearly 9,000 miles now, so I guess the springs have softened up?
I assume adding a bit of preload to the springs will help things along a bit, but the question is how much. Based on your details I guess I'm looking at additional compression of just 20mm difference between the bike without me on it, and with me on it. (I'm sure it sags far more than this at the moment).
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Preload adjustment on the Ten is very easy. For the rear, little tip, push in the black plastic button centres that hold the rubber flap to the swingarm, remove them and move the rubber out of the way so you can get a good range of movement on the adjuster (c-spanner in the toolkit). I would expect your shock will need a bit of tweaking, by 10,000 miles my OE shock was dead.
For the front simply wind in the heads in the fork tops with a 10mm allen key.
Bear in mind also that the generic sag adjustment guide is for road bikes, and not long travel trail bikes. If you try and get down to road levels of sag your bike will be very firmly suspended.