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Can rear shocks be done WITHOUT doing fronts and not losing too much? In a car, I do both fronts and rears when changing but if you do that in a bike, is there a substantial difference?
Haha. Anyway, I didn't have a problem with it. You could upgrade the fork springs but I didn't. I hear great things about progressive suspensions & ricor intiminators though.
Last edited by Superfly3176; Feb 24, 2012 at 06:45 PM.
I didn't think my front suspension was that bad until I upgraded the rear. It wouldn't hurt anything to just upgrade the rear, especially if you ride two up a lot.
I went cheap and got the rear SG air shocks and progressive springs in the front. I have less than $200 into the whole setup, and the difference is huge.
My opinion, it's worth it to do both front and rear if you can. I rode for about 2 weeks with just the rear air shocks, but knew after about the second ride on the new rears that I wanted to do the front ASAP.
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