I installed mine recently and got the sag set in the garage, and set the rebound in the ballpark with a bounce test (too wintry her for a ride). But honest to Pete I couldn't see any effect of the compression adjustment no matter what I did, from full in to full out. 32 clicks and no discernible change in a bounce test. What was your experience with the compression adjustment?
Because the base setting was so firm I wound right off and started off from there adding a click at a time.
I ride very hard and I am a suspension botherer, If you don't ride hard try with four clicks of comp from minimum as a start.
Make sure that sag is correct, if you did it by yourself it is probably wrong. It needs to be measured near the shock as possible .
The shock stroke ( if it is the same as stock) is only 88mm, I worked on 30% sag that only leaves 62mm of stroke if you hit a bump, not a lot of room to play with.
This suspension is never going to be a magic carpet ride with that short travel so setup is quite important to find that Goldilocks setting between bottoming out and breaking your back and no movement at all and throwing you out off the seat.
With a short stroke shock people sometimes mistake bottoming out for being too harsh and soften off the preload making it worse, if you seem to going round in circles go back to base and start again. It is a process of elimination, you will find a setting that does the least harm to your butt.
Patience, experimentation and the base settings for when you end up in a muddle. The final setting will be a compromise to accomodate 70% of your riding, the other 30% you will just have suck it up.
Just to add add another thing to the mix is ride height, to be honest on the RE it doesn't seem to make any difference to the handling to me. I have it set to the max of 10mm of thread showing as I want as much ground clearance as I can get.
At first I was grounding the TEC 2-1 headers, I loosened them off and re jiggled them maybe gaining a MM or two and with the ride height maxxed out front(Andreani Fork Cartridge Kit) and rear, plus Conti Road Attack 100/90 and 130/80 rear, that should give 20mm over stock. I have not yet ground the headers on the road with this setup, I may do a classic trackday this year then we will see!