Not some half-fast fix like a longer spacer! The springs in the forks on the 99 I'm riding most often lately (not the chopper) are sagging so bad I only have a couple of inches of rebound on them; then it's THUD as they bottom out!
I even tried swapping out the seemingly much better springs from the old 87 that I seldom ride, and they sagged too once installed on the 99... I really don't understand that one, as everything seemed to measure the same (except I had no scale to actually measure the actual spring rate of all involved):
But why would the springs which stood tall in the 87, suddenly sag like the others when installed in the 99s tubes?
I'm tempted to use the old "stretch-the-springs" with a come-along trick I resorted to on my old Kawasaki dirt bike when I was a kid. As I recall, I stretched them too much (like 6") and had so much pre-load that I almost never got the fork caps pressed down to get the threads to catch.
There's got to be an easier/better way???
Has nobody ever contacted Progressive to see if they have something already in stock that we could substitute? Or would it require that they (or someone) be convinced to make a specific spring(s) for the LS-650?