Q: I own a 2013 BMW S1000RR and I hardly ride it on the road but I do attend as many track days as possible and ride in the ‘A’ group, so I’d like to brag that I’m reasonably quick.
But since I’ve had the bike I do seem to be having problems with the front forks. They just don’t have the feel of my friends R1, which feel much better than this problematic front end of mine ever does.
I’ve tried fiddling and changing fork oil and stuff but they still feel a bit ‘choppy’ to say the least. So do you have any settings I could try and how often should I change the fork oil because my local BMW dealer doesn’t seem to have a clue, or care?
I know you’ve raced these bikes so I thought it would be best to run this question by you and hopefully you’ll send me in the right direction – literally?
Dave Commons
A: Yes, we have raced these bikes for a while now and to be honest BMW should give a S1000RR owner a formal and official apology and perhaps a gift voucher to spend at Woolworths, because the stock Sachs forks are shite items that shouldn’t even be on a bike of this caliber!
The only way to sort out these forks is to change all the internal parts for aftermarket superior performance parts from, say, Race-Tech for example, or the like. Fiddling and changing fork oil will make little or no difference, but for interests sake the fork oil relating to track use only should be changed at least every 20-hours of track time.
If you’re not happy best you just bring them to us at Bikeworks (011 792 5795) because we’ve already converted many and have the parts in stock?
