Well with this lovely sunny Sunday afternoon slowly coming to an end and with me having worked nearly all the way thur my self instructed list of must do home chores for this weekend there was only one last job to do before the sun fades, and that was to replace two rather dead looking agave plants that had been beaten to dead by the cold winters forsty mornings and they were making the pool decking look a litte crap and we can't have that now since our hot Aussie summer days will be here before we know it, and one must have the poolside area looking the goods at all times.....
With the plant nursey all picked out and it being the furtherest one away I could think of without being to stupid about it ,a good 100km round trip sounds nice, I wheeled out the freshly washed and polished RS from the Oz boxerworks rally and thru on the panniers, called out to my son who keenly got all his gear on quickly while I grabbed my wallet and phone from the draw then kissed my wife goodbye, were off to get the plants, be back in a couple of hours babe..
Anyway this thread was meant to be about shockers so I better get to that bit......While riding on the Oz rally with steveD at one of the fuel stops steve mentioned that my bikes walla's and twists thru the corners a little to much....."It's always done that" was my reply and to tell you all the truth that is what I thought the handling characterists of an old beemer were, I've had the bike for 4 years and just got used to it, even two-up with my son on the back and all our camping gear the "olegirl" just wallowed thru and around all the corners like a big ole "rubber-cow"...End of story, sort of....
I was given the chance to ride SteveD's beautiful black RS on the rally ride for about 40 kms and I couldn't believe the difference in the handling, nice and firm and no wallowing at all and this became a topic of conversation for most of the weekend between the two of us, to the point of me trying to adjust my "Marcozzi" shockers mid-way to no avail due to the position of the pannier frame and also the fact that they had slightly siezed up a bit, shame on me for never ever adjusting them from the previous owner, they felt nice and comfy I guess.
So last weekend I took them both off the bike, cleaned them up and played around with the settings and got them working a treat again, before they were on the sofest setting for the two adjustments and the ride to the nursery today with my son on the back was the first time on the new setting, to what Steve told me to put them on and I cannot believe the difference to the bike, it feels like a new ride and handles just so much better.....
What was I thinking for not ever paying an attention to them before
