Brother Kazu replaced the rear shock of his beloved car. Here is his report on how it went!
Kazu's Z2 was recently equipped with Daytona's adjustable rear shock system.
It is an upgrade from STD, but whether you can feel it or not depends more on your body condition than on your experience! Here are some impressions of the rear shock replacement.
A time when momentum and technique were the only way to get by safely.
When I started riding motorcycles in the early 80s, there were few high-performance aftermarket parts dedicated to specific models, as there are today, and even if there were, they were so expensive that I could not afford them with my part-time job salary.
However, I wanted to race on circuits and participate in races.
For amateur racers, it was a time of great hardship due to a lack of tuning know-how and financial difficulties.
One of the difficulties I had was the suspension setting. The settings I learned from my seniors on the team and my local brothers were not necessarily the right ones for me, but I had no choice but to ride the bike with the settings I had learned. Perhaps this is the reason why there are so many riders of my generation in the motorcycle industry who are known as the "uncrowned kings.
However, I was young in my teens, so I was able to get through many situations on my own. It was not until my mid-twenties that I began to think deeply about bike setup.
It was in my 30s that I began to understand chassis performance and suspension settings by feel. The most influential experience, that has been utilized in my setting techniques since then, was riding the Moriwaki MD600.
At that time, Mamoru Moriwaki, chairman of Moriwaki Engineering, taught me in great detail about everything from frame construction to settings.
It was truly a sense of a clearing of the fog, and I think it opened my eyes to the setting technique that had been a blur up to that point.
A bit of an exaggeration, perhaps?
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