When you’re in the business of servicing and setting up motorcycles, you see all sorts of machines come through the workshop, in all sorts of conditions. And all too often that means seeing mistakes owners have made when working on their bikes themselves.
When it comes to the front end of bikes, improper fork installation is the number-one source of harshness in the front suspension action, followed closely by too much spring preload. It’s critical that the fork tubes be installed correctly so that the tubes are perfectly parallel to each other. If they’re not, the forks will bind
