I thought the rear suspension was very hard when I first got the bike. I'm 70kg, (154lb), and the shocks were on the middle setting. I didn't change the setting partly because I was used to rock hard Italian bikes in the 1980s and partly because I had plans to replace the shocks with Hagons sooner rather than later. However over a couple of thousand miles they started to work a lot better and I think they're pretty decent now.