Yamaha RS Venture suspension settings i like 

hey Jesse, nice to hear from you. I was running 36 front/ 41.R tire pressures. I tried running 36F 38 R… I was looking at how my rear tire was wearing. The factory recommends 36 always in the front tire whether you have one or two people on the machine, and 36 rear up to41 rear Maxx depending on the load. so I just dropped to the rear tire pressure to 38 I always run the forks at seven psi The manual recommends you can run zero psi up to seven psi in the forks The manual recommends you can run zero psi up to 57 psi in the shock are usually ran 20 psi in the shock, but I tried 30 psi, which is the highest I ever ran it.. it felt like it was lighter on its feet. It definitely gave a better ride… I wanted to tell you that you can go to a dollar store or a five or less store and buy a turkey baster syringe for putting the oil in the rear shock without spilling a drop. That’s how I do it. when you drained your shock to change the oil. Did you happen to measure it with some thing that told you in cc?? I got out around 124 cc so that’s what I put back in. One of the Venture owners that I have checked out here on RU-vid is in Sweden. He changed his shock oil and I think he told me he got out a little more than 124 cc.. I want to change the fork oil. I keep putting it off because it looks like a pain in the butt to take the fairing off to get at the upper and lower triple clamp bolts to loosen them to let the fork tubes slide out… The reason I think it’s important to change the fork oil and the shock oil, but there are two reasons suspension oil gets cooked and contaminated with the fork springs in there rubbing against the fork sliders, I’m sure that oil breaks down even though the owners manual says it is not necessary to ever change the fork oil.. I was very surprised to see that statement by Yamaha that the oil in the forks never needs changed. They never even mentioned changing the shock oil either in the manual on the service chart.. here is the second reason I believe you need to change the oil in those suspension parts it’s because they are air forks, and an air shock. When you put air in your shock or in your forks, unless you have an air dryer system on your compressed air that you would have if you were using your compressor to paint cars… you are putting water/condensation inside the forks, and in the shock, that water is going to make the fork, springs. Rust, water, and oil do not mix. It’s got to start making corrosion in there. That is why I think it is just as important to change the fork oil, as it is to change the brake fluid and clutch fluid. They get moisture in them also which corrodes your master cylinder, wears out the O-rings, and eventually ends up, making your caliper seize up, and your slave cylinder on your clutch, either seize up or ruin the seal and the piston… I will be making a video of changing the fork oil. While I have the fairing off, I Will clean and re-agrees the steering head bearings also. They take one hell of a pounding… i’m gonna check the steering stem and see if it is a solid cylinder without any holes in it other than the top in the bottom. If it is a cylinder with just a top and a bottom hole, I may put a grease fitting on it… I installed a new set of horns that I thought would be higher pitch in more attention getting on my Venture. They are not nearly as loud as advertised. I’m going to take them off and put on the red Hella freeway blasters I had on my Kawasaki which I sold last month. I put the stock stuff back on the bike and then I put it up for sale so I have those really annoying harsh freeway blaster horns then I will put it on the Venture. I tried to find a place to put them on my Honda auntie700, but I could not find a place to squeeze them in there, and the style corn is not bad on that Honda. don’t forget about going to the store called five or less or some type of a store that would sell a turkey baster that looks like a large syringe. That is a very handy thing to have, when putting the oil into the shock and the forks if you put the oil in when they are on the bike. It’s best to put the oil in the fork tubes with the spring removed, and the fork tube at the bottom pushed all the way in the slider. And put the oil in the fork tube without the spring in there yet, and fill it to 5 inches from the top, slowly put the oil in and work the fork tube in and out of the slider to get the air out. I’m going to put 20 weight fork oil in my forks. that’s what I have in the shock Talk to you later