Katana Owners Club U.K.

Round black thing. Something to do with rear shock adjustment ?



Pete

Preload adjuster... Or rebound adjuster...

It's the rear shock preload adjuster, follow the cable to the shock and you'll probably find it's split where it takes a tight turn. If not you have the rarest popup out there, the one where the preload still works

If you want to take it off be careful they can be tricky to remove.

cant turn the thing. so assume its buggered. will have a look when its been oily ragged

Pete

Probably just needs the wonders of WD or similar.

Katgeezer wrote:Probably just needs the wonders of WD or similar.

Will give it a squirt then

Pete

The adjuster is actually a cable so gets full of grime in the kink as arnica said. You can undo the cable at shock end and lube it.
If you lok at the back of adjuster there is a sight glass with a ball bearing it it to show the setting , move it to 5 and forget it.

Believe it or not but mine is fully functional. Winds in n out no problem and you can feel a difference between hard n soft.

outrage wrote:Believe it or not but mine is fully functional. Winds in n out no problem and you can feel a difference between hard n soft.

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