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Originally Posted by
cj2150
Your trip's sound great and I'm finding the info here from people with a round the world underway very useful. Especially given, like John, I plan to set off on my own adventure late June/early July on my xt660r heading also east from the UK.
Paul (two wheels 03) - I notice in your signature you mention Kev's fork spacers. I just wondered how you are finding them given you have dealt with a mixture of on and off road? Did you cut them down slightly to cope with the off road sections better or have they been fine at the standard size?
Cheers
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To be honest with you the XTR forks are pretty basic and lack damping. That's what is most noticable - especially on corrugations (wash board). Kev's spacers do improve the ride loads on a loaded bike. Unloaded and practising your motoX moves could be a bit firm. For touring loaded up Kev's spacers are the most cost effective route to an improvement. If I was starting from home again, I'd look into comp and rebound damping - if I had the �����