"plenty of wiggles"...well....that could be tires.OR suspension...or both.I gave my rear preload about two or three turns...not a whole lot...mainly to keep the rear from nailing the undertail on hard takeoffs and bumps like you say.The front,I gave about three or four full turns on that as well....still very plush,but it actually seemed to help the chassis stay controlled a bit more.I don't think the suspension settings away from factory will be very noticeable at highway speeds...but there is a difference with mine anyway when I get up above 100.That's when I can really feel the chassis settling itself.

I'm still on my second front tire..the AngelST.It's in pretty good shape still at with 2,537 miles on it.Bike total...5762.I'm not seeing any problem with having two different tires on there...The Dunlop's doing VERY good...staying nice and round across the tread...and I've been putting it through it's paces as much as I dare on the street.

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I've had the front (and the rear) slide on gravel, tar snakes, rain over oil, oil over oil, glossy painted wide road markings like pedestrian crosswalks at no stop corners. Plus a bunch I don't remember.

Haven't saved from all of them. The ZX11 went down in Antibe, France, on a glossy yellow pedestrian crosswalk line on the street with morning dew on it, at 20 mph. All my fault, no way to save it. If its gone, its gone. No major damage, put a bandaid on it and continued on.

It really is more the rider than the bike. I've failed to save a front end slide just once in 45+ years of riding, counting throwing the ZX11 away in the Santa Clara Moutains in 1992, that would be twice, but the 1992 lowside into a high side was a save followed by inescapable force vector mechanics (i.e., too much going on for a human to solve it all at once) so I don't count that as a front wheel slide.

The one time a pure front end slide got me, there was no saving it, I needed to make an adjustment 10 seconds before the slide and failed to do it.

had plenty of gravel ,tar, etc slides,wet painted lines etc, these are all the one you can see, most times, and know whts comming, they dont bother me much
properly lost the front of cbr1100 in spain once, bend got much tighter than anticipated, and camber ran away from me, id say front moved 6inches or more hard to tell felt it going, wasnt going very fast, as was trying to scrub off speed as bend tightened, had no brakes on at that stage but front was full loaded and had panniers and tank bag and backpack, it seemed to start moving slowly at first, but that could be the slow motion mind playing tricks, took foot off peg to just in time as front suddenly went, leg just happend to be at the right angle to the road to take full brunt of weight /impact, bike didnt go down but i felt like i have jumped off a 2 storey building and landed on 1 leg, felt like id dislocated my hip !!

"bend got much tighter than anticipated, and camber ran away from me,"...yup...dangerous stuff for sure.One reason I don't go koo koo on the farm to market roads...I had my turn virtually totalling my 07 14....with 1500 miles on her.It wasn't pretty...but it COULD have ended a lot worse had there been a car coming the other way.Broke my collarbone and cracked a rib with that one...highside and double flip lowside.It was knarley.

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