Does anyone know what the standard preload on a 2021MY V4S is for both forks and shock. I thought I had put mine to standard and was experimenting with different levels and somehow lost my way. I ended up with the front pushing a lot into corners and the front tyre being chewed up on the edges much like too much weight on the front. However on corner exit it would run wide! I need to put the spring preload back to standard and start from there again. How many turns front spring preload? How many lines showing on the rear? thanks.
Best to set the static sag front & rear for your weight as a starting point. YouTube is full of how to do this - Dave Moss would be a good start. Even better would be a pro suspension set-up if you're not familiar with the whys & wherefores of suspense adjustments. DM can be irritating, but generally sound advice:
Standard settings should be in the owners handbook. Suspension aside, check the front tyre pressure. They’re very sensitive to pressure and low pressure is indicative of what you’re describing
The owners handbook just says contact dealer for the V4S. The standard v4 has some settings in the manual. Tyres were spot on. 3rd trackday on that front. 32psi hot all day long. I could feel the”push” in the initial part of the corner. Previous 2 days were ok, only on this day I messed around with front and rear preload. I thought I had it as 11 turns preload and 10lines showing on the rear shock as standard but when I’ve gone back to that the bike’s acting weird
If anyone is interested, i got a response from Ducati and from @nelly (i think) at Cornerspeed. The standard front preload was 2mm and the rear preload was 13mm. This helped me put it back and work my way to better settings again. The curious thing is that when I thought the bike was handling at its worst, ie pushing the front and not turning, i did my quickest lap times at 2 different circuits . So, note to self. Leave well alone. If it's not broken......
I stumbled across this thread searching for preloaded settings. I decided to set the sag on my 2024 Streetfighter V4s. From factory settings there was no static sag on the rear, with 11 threads showing I reduced the preload by 4 threads for now which has given me just over 10mm of static. The forks had different preload settings from factory, one was 8 1/2 turns counter clockwise from full preload and the other was 10 turns out. I’ve set both at 5 turns out which gives me total sag of around 37mm. I’m 186 pounds with my bike gear on.
