Im planning to rebuild my suspension on a 07 zx10 this winter and need help from suspension tuners. Ive been researching and have decided the first thing is to decide if I need a progressive or digressive valving in the forks. Im not worried about brand, I feel there are many good products and services to choose from. All I do is street riding. I do like to ride as hard as my skill will allow from time to time and ride on some very rough farmer market roads. Any information on this would help.
For Your needs, because of rough old roads, being quite different than the smoothish closed course road race tracks that the bike is kinda considered for, by the manufactures. I'd highly recommend you just tell Race Tech what you want, and because of their history in off road racing, they will select a shim stack for your requirements.
I had Tony in R&D, do just that. My Riding is on old roads, one in particular I have to believe is the roughest paved road that exists. Being a wagon trail that got a hard surfacing maybe 120 years ago, and then patches on top of patches ever since.
I'm an Ex-Desert racer, and have made the conversions to my ZX-10 (flat tracker handle bars, Scotts Damper, and the suspension being the main items here), to ride it like flying a desert bike, where the pavement is so rough, the bike is launched and stays launched as long as the speed is maintained in the areas of visability.
Pirelli Diablo Corsa III's work better than the other choices here, and your suspension has to be "tuned" to the tires, so switching around on tires will just keep things screwed up (never set-up), So... if you haven't done the tires yet... that should be done, and tell Tony what You have there.
Good Luck on this, it transforms your bike
