Anyone using Maxton Suspension on a VFR

I was curious if anyone here has used Maxton suspension parts on their VFR. How does it compare to Olins - is it cheaper - how is the support and setup?

 

Just and fYI - I emailed Maxton and got the following info in my reply:

HONDA VFR800 VTEC
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FRONT

The springs are on the soft side which can cause the forks to bottom out under heavy breaking, this depends on your rider weight and again how hard you ride the bike, the big problem is they do not have enough rebound damping, which makes the forks spring back very quickly when you let go of the brake or accelerate, this causes the bike to run wide out of corners and makes the bike difficult to turn in to a corner. We modify the forks fitting harder springs to suit the type of riding you do and also your rider weight, we also revalve the forks increasing the rebound damping to control the forks. The fork conversion costs £250.00 plus worn parts : Seals £20 and Bushes £20. (ALL PRICES EXCLUSIVE OF V.A.T).



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REAR

The rear unit is a Showa unit and is a unit which we can service but cannot buy any parts for. The spring on the unit is approximately about the right rate for the average weight of rider, the biggest problem with the unit is there's not enough travel in it, it only has 3" of wheel travel built into the shock absorber, all bikes should have 5" approxamatley. As there is not enough travel the shock will bottom out on the bumpstop causing the bike to launch you out of the seat. You will make the problem worse if you load the bike up with a pillion or luggage. Unfortunately there is nothing we can do to change the design of the unit which means we cannot stop this problem. We supply a Maxton replacement unit which is a fully adjustable, alloy bodied, high pressure gas unit that adjusts via shim stack system. The unit has a spring to suit your rider weight and to suit what type of riding you do. The unit costs £405.00 but we also make a remote reservoir unit that has a second compression adjuster which costs £490.00. ALL PRICES EXCLUDE V.A.T.

We can also supply a Maxton hydraulic preload adjuster which costs an extra £125.00 plus V.A.T on top of the price of a Maxton unit. This is optional and would be useful if you carried a pillion 50% of the time. Instead of using C-Spanners to adjust preload, you simply turn an adjsuter knob.