Wow, Richard,

Cool plan you got here with the front fork. Can't imagine that this can be done in a "developed" country at a "typical consumer budget". Really looking forward to see, what comes out of this. I had a small lunch-time ride today again, much on unpaved roads and I must say, that simply changing the springs (90 Euros) and the oil made a big, big difference. I am almost at a point of total satisfaction, almost. TA's hydraulic spring-tensioner would make things much more smooth, very sexy. Instead I have to fiddle with tools all the time to play with the spring-load. Another thing, which I need to check - maybe someone knows here - is: When the front get's "aired", decompressed suddenly, then the front-shocks hit a kind of end point and it makes a quit unpleasant sound - like metal hits metal. I understand some models have rubber dampers inside to avoid that...

About the rear shock - I fully agree to what you are saying, nothing really wrong with the original part. Having said that, I changed to a custom Wilbers shock on my R1150GSA after running down the original one with permanently riding fully loaded, and it made a huge difference in the way, how the bike feels. Even solo. It's not really about stiffening up but more about a solid feel and faster response. Same thing on the JH600. Come to Fuzhou and try it out...

After all, looking at the performance, it is still a China-bike, far from anything close to a BMW, even though with big fun factor. I really like the JH600 too and we should not be shy to show it. A BMW logo on it would be kinda weird.

Hope you will post news on your modified "front-end" soon (ChinaV, I know what you are thinking now ...but I mean the front suspension of the JH600).

Cheers,
AW.