My 2009 XTR is my 2nd bike, my other being a BMW K1300S. I love the XT, some times even more than the K13, but there is one thing that bugs me - the bouncy suspension. When I pull up to a stop, the forks compress, bounce back up, and then the back compresses, bounces back up.... It wouldn't be such an issue but it's hard enough to reach the ground without the bike pogoing as I try to plant a foot. Of course, the BMW has that odd anti-dive front end, so the XT is even more alarming when I get back on it.

I know it's meant to have some off-road capability, and I don't want to get rid of that completely, but is there anything I can do to improve my bouncy castle XT, short of taking it to a suspension specialist and getting a complete new shock and fork internals? And, if I do throw �500 at it to really improve the suspension, would that then actually devalue the bike in the future as I assume stiffer suspension would take away what off-road ability it has?