What do you racers do for a living????

[Super Dave]

I put in the race-tech, and cut the preload spacers, put a taller Michelin front (120/70) on the bike, dropped the triples on the forks about 10mm to slightly lower the front overall (installed F3 clip-ons along the way), then set the sag with the rear preload. That's all I can afford for suspension until March.

Ok, that's the fron forks.  Stock shock?

I guess what you're doing with the forks is kind of backwards from the direction that I might go.  

I hope to find a set-up guru to go over the bike with me at the bike's first trackday (next weekend). If consensus opinion is that the rear really sucks, I guess I'll be looking for professional help before the first ASMA race (conveniently located in March:D)

dave

Real guru's are hard to find.

Most people don't last very long in this industry.  They come in get everyone excited and leave with the money.  And racers don't last long either, so they are here and gone in a couple or few years.  Some of the people that are around for a long time, won't share ideas, or riders just don't talk to them.  Sometimes those experienced riders just don't understand things themselves.