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Hi Nick, Superhawk is my first and only bike. I have 11000 miles on it as today, 1/3 of the miles were riden in twisties. I would not say this is an ideal bike for beginner, but I would not have it any other way. I have also riden friend's bandit 1200 and cbr929rr. The 4-liner feels smoother in stop...

Here is the article about spring (& preload) from runlevelzero:

http://www.runlevelzero.net/pipermail/s ... 74276.html

The above is part 2, there is also part 1 and 3.

Preload will change is the geometri of your bike, but it will not make the suspension hard of soft unless you change the spring. Like you're saying when you sit down on the bike, the bike drops considerably, and you can compensate this by putting more preload, but this does not make the forks harder...