Glad I could help!

and?are you pleased now?you see big differnce?

Hi Oliver, no worries…I’m 12.5 stone with kit on & 11.5 without. It’s best to put the rear up to 4 just to make it sit on the side stand properly or else it’ll easily fall over with a passing car or medium wind. Also put the front preload up by 4-5 rotations (clockwise) & it’ll level the bike out & give it a much better feel, especially on low speed corners & roundabouts (traffic islands) Hope that helps, let us know how you get on 👍

@@toejamtimmy4402 i changed the rear to "4" and went for a short Trip Yesterday. Much better. Will try the Front later. Thanks so much

It will sag more but that’ll make the bike a bit vague or hard to hold a line in a corner. It’ll also make it too harsh on larger bumps or potholes. I’d get the Honda low seat first then possibly look into lowering the bike if that doesn’t work. You really want your suspension to be set up & work properly so it keeps your tyres in contact with the ground as much as possible.

@@toejamtimmy4402 thank you very much...

No I’m definitely turning it the correct way to increase preload. If you read the manual & you’ll see that number 2 is standard setting so therefore I’d be unable to go the wrong way more than one click. Let us know how you get on with the oil change etc.. be interesting to know how much of a difference it makes. 👍

OK. Just think of the shock absorber's body as a large bolt, and the adjuster ring as a large nut. You tighten the nut down to increase the spring's preload, and loosen the nut off to reduce preload. (That actual setting could be anywhere when you received the bike). That should make sense as to which direction is which, regardless of where the preload was set on delivery. Perhaps just take another look at it in light of this explanation. I have been riding for 61 years now and worked on bikes for a living for about 50 years, and was only trying to help! And I have read the manual. Enjoy your Transalp.

I assume you also adjusted the preload on the front forks to distribute weight on the front wheel.

@@fixento yeah I put the front up 3 rotations

Well in the course of bleeding/topping up my rear brake fluid, which requires the removal of the reservoir, it became clear that you were correct - the adjustment does in fact go 'the wrong way'. As in, the opposite way to every 'proper' shocker, with a threaded preload adjustment! This unit uses a stepped collar, like from an old twin-shock unit, but unlike those, the steps aren't visible until the rear brake hydraulics are worked on! Why Honda would make this adjustment the opposite direction to all others I have encountered makes no sense, but then neither does having no ambient temperature, amongst so much other extraneous information, the blinker switch placed differently to every other bike, no hand knob (with arrows!) for the shock preload, etc. Although this will be my fourth Honda, it is my first new one. My older ones still had the blinker switch where other makes have theirs... So yes, the preload adjuster DOES adjust in the opposite direction to most monoshocks, which is literally 'counter-intuitive'. At least for someone more accustomed to Ohlins and the like, and every other Showa I have worked on. But the shocker isn't of very good quality, and will be replaced with a better one soon in my case. (I will try an oil change, but I suspect it is destined to become a shed ornament). After 5,000 kms on my Transalp now, the suspension is 'tolerable', but suffers from being unsure whether it is for on-road, or off-road, and the reality that the suspension isn't of very high quality. I will experiement with changing the oils in the (separate functon) forks, probably to lighter weight oil in the compression leg, and slightly heavier in the rebound leg, but the rear unit will just get replaced. I/we knew the suspension was where this bike would need some work, and bought it knowing this. At least the cheap buying price makes this relatively affordable, as against lashing out for a Ducati or Aprilia... If changing the fork oils doesn't yield the expected improvement, there are cartridges being offered for them now. Like the bashplate, handguards etc, we knew there was a little more to spend on this bike. But it is a model worth 'finishing off', and I think this model may be around for many years, as it suits many riders. I am enjoying mine more than I expected to.