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The other month i opted to replace the suspension on my kat 750 K3 with 40K on the clock as the handling was rubbish to say the least.
The front end was a pretty easy job if not a little time consuming with having to take all the fairing off to get to everything but in all probably took me about 2 hrs from start to finish. Using hagons recommend settings of 5wt oil and a 140 air gap i have the forks compression set to 3rd hardest and the front end feels great.
When the monoshock arrived shorlty afterwards i set to work on it, it's a much easier job to do without the need to remove any body work but it would help access to the top bolt if you did, but i got by fine with just removing the footpegs and putting a car jack under the swing arm to help with lining parts up.
I've attached pictures of the old and new shock, as you can see the old shock gave up a long time ago, there was even a hole in the piston body. I'm still playing with setting for the Hagon shock, i've found as per their settings it feels to soft, so far i've tried +1/4 turn compression/rebound and 1 turn of preload and although the bike is holding nicely the ride is a bit rough, although Hagon suggest preload be done in increments of full turns i'm going to reduce it to only +1/2 a turn and go from there, the only thing i dislike about the Hagon unit and this really is being picky is they use a gurb screw to secure the adjuster ring so at certain points in rotation it is extremely hard to get to.
But all in all i've had fantastic service and i would highly recommend them to anyone who asks.
The front end was a pretty easy job if not a little time consuming with having to take all the fairing off to get to everything but in all probably took me about 2 hrs from start to finish. Using hagons recommend settings of 5wt oil and a 140 air gap i have the forks compression set to 3rd hardest and the front end feels great.
When the monoshock arrived shorlty afterwards i set to work on it, it's a much easier job to do without the need to remove any body work but it would help access to the top bolt if you did, but i got by fine with just removing the footpegs and putting a car jack under the swing arm to help with lining parts up.
I've attached pictures of the old and new shock, as you can see the old shock gave up a long time ago, there was even a hole in the piston body. I'm still playing with setting for the Hagon shock, i've found as per their settings it feels to soft, so far i've tried +1/4 turn compression/rebound and 1 turn of preload and although the bike is holding nicely the ride is a bit rough, although Hagon suggest preload be done in increments of full turns i'm going to reduce it to only +1/2 a turn and go from there, the only thing i dislike about the Hagon unit and this really is being picky is they use a gurb screw to secure the adjuster ring so at certain points in rotation it is extremely hard to get to.
But all in all i've had fantastic service and i would highly recommend them to anyone who asks.
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