Acceeration hesitation under heavy acceleration

[Kiwifruit]

Adjusted my throttle cables recently after reading of there importance.
Its just a nicer bike to ride, much smoother at slow speed.

[Michael Whitney]

Ah yeah forgot fuel injected bikes have a tps etc lol, duh! My CBF 125 is fuel injected but been on bandit 600 which is carb'd for 3 years so it's odd not having things like a fuel tap for example lol or a choke.

I know it's off topic and should probably start a new thread about it but I just went to increase the preload on the rear shocks and it didn't seem to do anything. Again though first time I've owned a bike with the preload adjustment being a little knob on the side and I only turned it half a turn if that, thinking about it I'm guessing it needs quite a few turns for it to start increasing or decreasing the preload? Saw no movement at all though.

[Blubber]

Again though first time I've owned a bike with the preload adjustment being a little knob on the side and I only turned it half a turn if that, thinking about it I'm guessing it needs quite a few turns for it to start increasing or decreasing the preload? Saw no movement at all though.

You have found a weak spot on the 14. We don't like to talk about that 


The black knop you mention is indeed the hydraulic pre load adjuster. It has a "S" - softer and a "H" - harder with a turn direction mentioned.
Being hydraulic is uses oil. The problem our 14 has is that the o-ring used to keep the oil inside easily accumulates dirt from use.
This dirt gets trapped between the o-ring when trying to alter the settings causing the oil to leak.

Annoyingly but totally curable .

http://gsx1400owners.org/forum_test/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=24

[Michael Whitney]

So should it only take like half a turn for it to start adjusting the preload or does it take a few turns? Also haven't noticed any oil leaking and was told by another owner of a 14 that my shocks are the newer ones, the older ones had leaking issues like you mentioned but the newer ones aren't prone to leaking. Not sure if he's correct or not though.

[seth]

it takes a few turns from softest to hardest setting
the newer shocks have red springs (olders shocks have silver springs) but are still prone to the same problems but it takes a little longer .
follow blubbers link as they can be fixed old and newer once 

[Michael Whitney]

Tried it earlier did take more turns than I thought lol I've raised them up a bit as I'm a heavy guy lol. Wouldn't mind getting risers for the rear shocks at some point. At least Ik the preload adjuster works as intended for now.