I got a chance to test the new gearing ratio after the sproket changes. I can tell you I could'nt tell much difference just riding around. It was'nt until we hit the woods and all the hill that I noticed the difference. Much easier on the engine i think and alot easier on me. The changes took out the harshness when going up some steep hills. What I mean by that is it seemed like the front end stayed planted much better. Matter of fact, it never came off the ground once. It also seemed like the engine had a much easier time pushing me and the bike up the hill also. Just in case your wondering what sprokets I went with, it was 49 tooth on the rear and the drive sproket is a 12 tooth.Now about the seal savers, I had a topic on taking mine off to see if it would help my stiction problem. Boy howdy! The forks worked so much better and alot of the stiction is gone. It felt so good yesterday i was finding myself going up hill WITH big roots in the way. It skipped across rocks better than ever. I also set my sag in the rear awhile back and I think it helped some too. The whole bike felt very stable and very ridable in bad conditions. I'm very happy the way it's performing now. I guess I'm just going to run my forks from now on without the seal savers. I'll just have to do alittle more work on the bike from year to year, but the performance I feel I gained is worth it to me.
I bought a DVD off E-Bay showing how to maintain forks, changeing oil ect. I'm going to aquire the necessary tools and start doing my own mainenance on y forks.
Jon.
