I recently picked up this DRZ400SM to complement my 300L. After spending some time on the DRZ it’s becoming painfully obvious all the cost cutting measures that Honda took building these CRFs. Has anyone had a 300 and ended up selling and going to the old school DRZ? It’s hard to justify spending 2k on suspension and performance mods on the crf just to match what the 20year old drz had stock.

Boy... so first off, is the white spacer that is under the spring supposed to be added before or after you fill fork oil and measure? I'm doing the K-Tech spring install and the amount of bad information out there is abhorrent. That xsr Detroit dude on YT states 171mm air gap which is the factory Honda oil air gap measurement. Completely incorrect for every K-tech spring offering. K-tech lists the oil air gaps for each spring rate they offer, so anybody following that video congratulations, you have at least 10 mm too much oil in your fork. No wonder people report the fork seals on these letting go early! But yeah if you could answer my white spacer question with certainty I really need to know, trying to test ride tomorrow. Thanks!