Why I chose to upgrade my bike's suspension T7 World Raid Ep4

Preparing to fit my bike with Adventure luggage, I'm upgrading the suspension with progressive fork springs and Touratech shock absorber to retain the World Raid's best handling traits once loaded with extra weight.

I'm getting it closer to the ultimate travel setup, I've trimmed down a lot of weight from the back end of the bike, to help it perform at its best once fully loaded with luggage and fuel. The biggest problem with adventure bike riders is they're so excited to live this image of Adventure and they destroy the handling of their bike with overloaded luggage. I've got the Touratech pro set, which is designed for Expedition use.

Progressive springs work by increasing their rate the closer the suspension gets to the bottom of the stroke and allows an overall better supported load, so your ride height sits up in the supple part of the stroke at the top where you want the bike to float over the corrugations and little rocks.
Additionally, when the bike takes a big hit and compresses down to the bottom of the stroke, progressive springs offer more resistance against that metal to metal clunk happening.

I'll run you through some more of the the concept behind this stuff as I throw it in but let's get into it! If you like this stuff, please like and share this video and hit the Subscribe button 🔔

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[albertobassi]

Dude, if you decided to set up an adventure riding school.... I'm in. Legend!

[paul.vanhout]

Most understandable explanation of high vs low speed compression I have heard. Great info👍

[lessmore]

High speed vs low speed damping finally explained in a proper & understandable manner.

[jasonlonon]

Your vids, movies and perspective exemplify what motorcycling is all about. Watching religiously. Its about time you come to the USA and shred....you have a big following here. Keep up the stellar work!

[wilhelmgrau]

Hey Adam,
as an old white road driver, I'm sitting in front of the screen with wet hands and wide eyes, watching you push the T7 through the terrain. If only I had decided on an enduro bike 30 years earlier! Now I ride from one hotel parking lot to another and talk about adventure. Maybe I'll dare to do a course after all, to practise to prepare the old bones for loose ground. It will be a slow, cautious adventure, but at least it will be a small one. And then I'll admire your tours even more...
I'm being very selfish when I ask you to continue in the same way, because all of a sudden I'm dreaming of campfires, red wine from the hose, camping and riding on long slopes with a friend in front or behind me. And grinning like you when the bike starts up perfectly after a cold night.
All the best for you and your family!

[cyclenut]

Suspension, tires, controls, and engine crispness are the first things I always have to change to what I like. Suspension can make or break your relationship with the bike. It’s probably what I work on the most for any kind of serious off road rides. It can make or break you. It took me years to figure it out and a lot of questions to the guys that were faster, but it was all worth it. I have a riding buddy that we can talk suspension for hours, ride some more and then analyze what the suspension is doing and how can we improve it. Probably, when it gets to riding trail quickly, suspension is the most important variable.

[BoogiemanMoto]

Adam please for the love of all that is Holy, get your hands on an Aprilia Tuareg 660 and flog it for a review/comparison video. I would love to see and hear your thoughts on it. I finally purchased one last month after lusting after it since it came out 3 years ago. Most amazing motorcycle I’ve ever ridden. I’m absolutely hooked on adventure riding now. I’ve watched a ton of your vids recently and have been a subscriber for a long time. The way you break things down, your explanations, your experience, it speaks volumes. The way you can simplify the most complex theories and dumb them down for the masses is a true gift. You have a teachers gift while still being relevant and hilarious at the same time. Keep the content coming and please, test ride a Tuareg. Cheers from the US of A.

[DvdP]

Mate, another great movie. Full of passion and without nonsense. It's fantastic that you make all the adjustments yourself and immediately feel the difference. You ride the T7 to the limit again!!
Thank you!

[tonylawton]

Love your no bullshit explanations, i can actually understand you and my riding has been so much better listening to you

[godfrois]

Deadly 690 fan here but that is looking the business. Keen to see more.
Invite Pol for a week on the farm!

[lukefish]

Daaamn! Sending it from the start! 🏍️💨
It’s beautiful to see a man ride a ADV bike like we all strive too.
Thanks for helping us get there as much as you can.
I really do appreciate it!
🏍️💨

[MaxwellBenson]

Nice tip for the remote preload mounting point. The first thing I ditch is the passenger pegs so it's a perfect spot.

[achappstube]

"did you see the big unit" - awesome riding and shock upgrade!

[BaldKnobbies-Sunny]

Too each his own but this right here is the one and only essential adventure riding content guru out there. Keep on riding (and posting) !

[rideau]

As always, just cuts through the crap and backs it up with real riding....brilliant work !

[bigals.ktms.]

One problem with Adam's videos is he rides a t7 like most of us ride an enduro bike, so much ability he makes me sick lol.😂

[dibyanshuk]

your videos are real education to start my offroad/touring with the new Royal enfield himalayan 450.

[mardelplatalimousines]

As always a very honest, objective and eloquent description that covers just the correct info that we need to want this motorbike. King regards from Catalonia!

[danghita]

While light bikes or light packing has it's own place under the sun, adventure biking is a broad type of experience. I'm not sure why the struggle to buy a heavy bike and change so much to make it suitable for enduro riding, why not buying an enduro bike to beggin with, if that's your thing. You can add another $10K on this T7 and won't come closer to a 690 or a 701, not to mention a 500EXC. I think there is a huge niche and enough room for the heavy(er) adventure bikes, but the spectrum doesn't need to start so deep in the hard enduro adventure but rather in a very light "enduro ..ish" adventure. So when you say "I don;t know why people are loading these bikes with so much luggage" I definitely have the answer: because they don't ride hard enduro, they just go camping with friends in the back country. AU is big and beautiful, I'm pretty sure you agree it's not a must to ride thru the deepest rivers and jumping thickest dead trees to find spots worth of riding with your friends or by yourself and just enjoing the road, which sometimes is off road, gravel, light tracks like Strzelecki and Oodnadatta which I just come back from with my Truimph Tiger 900 Rally full of luggages (16 days of camping).. something like in your picture from 0:49. I had fun, mate, really. I experienced this country so raw, breathing dust and fine sand and drinking muddy water.. but I never had to jump once! Cut us a bit of slack mate, we can coexist and share heavy bikes, and go places, and not just "live this image of adventure" :-) Cheers

[thomasbinder]

Best wishes from Austria! Thx 4 your videos 🙏