Adjusting The Front Fork - Yamaha YZF-R6 Owner's Manual

INSTRUMENT AND CONTROL FUNCTIONS

Adjusting the front fork

This front fork is equipped with spring
preload adjusting bolts, rebound damp-
ing force adjusting screws and com-
pression damping
screws.
3
WARNING
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Always adjust both fork legs equal-
ly, otherwise poor handling and loss
of stability may result.
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force adjusting
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1. Spring preload adjusting 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
suspension, turn the adjusting bolt on
each fork leg in direction b.
and thereby soften
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1. Current setting
2. Front fork cap bolt
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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the
CI-18E
Minimum (soft)
Standard
Maximum (hard)
Setting
8
7
1