Adjusting The Front Fork - Yamaha TDM900 Owner's Manual

INSTRUMENT AND CONTROL FUNCTIONS

Adjusting the front fork

This front fork is equipped with spring
preload adjusting bolts and damping
force adjusting screws.
WARNING
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Always adjust both fork legs equal-
3
ly, otherwise poor handling and loss
of stability may result.
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1. Spring preload adjusting bolt
2. Current setting
3. Standard setting
4. Front fork cap bolt
Spring preload
To increase the spring preload and
thereby harden the suspension, turn
the adjusting bolt on each fork leg in di-
rection a. To decrease the spring pre-
load and thereby
suspension, turn the adjusting bolt on
each fork leg in direction b.
NOTE:
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Align the appropriate groove on the ad-
justing mechanism with the top of the
front fork cap bolt.
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CI-01E
Setting
soften the
3-13
Minimum Stan-
Maximum (hard)
(soft) dard
8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1