I have a 99 standard with about 52k miles and am wondering if I should replace the rear shocks and do some work on the front. All are original and it seems to ride fine but I could be used to it.
How can you tell if you need shocks?
Does your bike wallow in the turns when you're riding fast? Do you feel like maybe your rear
wheel is skipping down the road (not staying constantly in contact with the road) when you're
braking hard in bumps? A rule of thumb is that you don't want your shocks to bottom out except
on the harshest of hits... if they never ever bottom out, you're not using all the travel...
Progressive (brand) springs and the fresh oil that would go along with them would improve
your forks... less dive under braking for a specific thing, and just generally better... there's
wear parts inside the forks that could/should be changed out by now too...
-Mike