CALYX <> I agree!
www.volksdragon.net/dusk/04-05%20ZX10R%20Service%20Manual.pdf
VALLARTA1 <> First, thank you for your input. I was hoping someone whom works on suspension, such as yourself, would weigh in with their experienced opinion(s). The video link is appreciated, as well; it's nice to see something other than Dave Moss as I've been on a Moss Marathon for longer than I'd care to admit.
Quick story on my bike: it was a track bike that I picked up cheap to fix, clean up, & convert to street. The guy [I bought it from] told me he paid someone to "setup" the suspension for him whom was around 220 w/gear... I'm 270 out of the shower. Whomever "set up" the suspension had the shock preload so stiff that I'm getting 3/4" of sag in the back, and the fork preload was at half. I was speaking a couple days ago with a regional racer, Seth Starnes, that gave me some baseline comp & rebound settings, that I used, and the bike is acting dramatically better on the street. Biggest change was I maxed the fork preload which seems to had evened her out a lot.
Anyhow, I bring up the bike history because I don't know what's been done, but I can compress the forks really far just push testing them & I bottom them out on the brakes so I deduce they're stock springs. Not so much that I feel them "thud" at the bottom of the stroke, but I bury the ziptie all the way to the casting. Shock is stiff, but it's also preloaded to the max as illustrated below.
Forks/Shock compression/rebound video:
https://www.magisto.com/video/MV5GPl4MFzw3WhxpYw?l=vsm&o=w&c=c
So my question for you now,
VALLARTA1, is I have found the Gen1 manual online which states full adjustment numbers for all four screws (i.e., forks- 11 clicks rebound/13 clicks compression & shock- 4.5 turns rebound/ 4 turns compression), but considering my bikes forks & shock are not exhibiting those numbers is a full disassembly/reassembly on the forks likely capable of correcting it? I mean & I'm not being a smartass, but I do know how to count, and the 17 total clicks of compression & 5 clicks of total rebound Im getting on my fork does not match the 11 & 13 clicks the manual says it should have. And then the shock, I mean its not like someone took apart a stock shock so I'm stumped as to why I can get 5.5 full rotations on my compression (on the top) & 3.5 full rotations on my rebound (on the bottom).
I guess it's quite obvious the forks, at least, need to be totally disassembled, but I'm posting here because you, a professional, I'm hoping will see something I type & maybe you recognize something I wouldn't ever. It just seems so strange to me, a layman, to have such variance in these adjustors, you know?
Thanks again for your input. Everything helps.