I just told you i am counter steering. But how hard do you think i should be pulling on the damn thing?
No you didn't, your describing it as "pulling the bike over with you." That's not counter steering at all, you need to PUSH the inside bar OUT or foreword. It's counter intuitive to steer the opposite direction of the corner, but that is the ONLY way to steer a bike properly at any speed over parking lot speed. Turning right, you push on the right handle bar and make your front wheel steer LEFT. Look at a few youtube vids on it, you are working too hard and trying to bring the bike over. Once you figure out counter steering the bike will fall into a turn effortlessly (like mattgti describes).
And i told you preload, and all the others is set to the manual enhanced ride (extra 1/2 rear, and front)
Trying to help you out. I was looking for how many clicks out your adjusters are to get a baseline on what you got going on. I won't however look up what "enhanced ride" settings are to figure out where you have your settings and you didn't mention year and model (it is an R right?) and the settings in the manual differs from year models (fork change from the 03~04 to 05~07 and then again in 08~10).
Just some basics though.
*Preload sets your ride height and/or sag.
Lowering the front and/or raising the back will make the bike more responsive. Turn in will be quicker and changing directions can be done faster. But, you loose straight line and high speed stability.
The opposite is true if you lower the rear or raise the front. Your steering will be less responsive yet more stable.
Raising both increases response as well and will sacrifice stability.
*Compression dampening as the name imply's controls dampening as the suspension is compressed. Tightening either end will loose grip on that end. Loosening compression on either end will gain you grip on that end. So if you loosened (clicks out, or counter clockwise) your front, you'll gain traction in the front, but you also will get more brake dive. Loosen the rear, you get better rear traction (in cornering and under acceleration). Compression also controls body motions front to back.
*Rebound dampening controls how fast your shocks extend back to their normal state or ride height. It will control how fast your suspension recovers from a bump and also can control body motions (Brake dive, accel squat etc.)
The harder (clockwise tightening) the settings (both compression and dampening) the more responsive the handling but harsher the ride and loose of grip in changing road conditions (bumps, seems in the asphalt/concrete, etc.). Opposite for loosening the settings. Loosening will make the bike more docile and forgiving to rider inputs and road conditions.
So, to speed the response of the bike up, lift the rear and tighten up the compression and rebounds. How much front to back and how tight depends on the rider. Start with only ONE change at a time then ride. If the change went in favor of what your looking for, then keeping making changes in that direction one change at a time.
But honestly, the way your describing riding the bike, I think you just need more experience. When I discovered how to counter steer properly it was like a light bulb went on and it all just fell into place and became effortless to lay a bike (ANY BIKE) over and corner hard!
~Mike....
