Difference in suspension setup between my 2022 Aerox vs 2024 model

Recommend changing fork oil to Motul 20W - 65 ml per fork to owners of the new model.

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I wanted to share my observations about the suspension on the Aerox and what’s changed in the updated one.

As an owner of a 2022 Aerox myself, I have completed over 13k kms so far and have been enjoying the experience of owning it. I changed my rear suspension to the Indo Spec ones quite early on in my ownership. The older Aerox came with a very stiff rear suspension, in fact, they took the same shocks from the RayZR which only has a single shock at the rear and put two of them on the Aerox (as Aerox comes with dual rear shocks). This resulted in terrible rides on anything except the most perfect of highways. Now in the late 2023 update, what they have done is that they have reduced the number of coils on the spring of the rear shocks which effectively makes it softer. It is now a lot better than before and is actually perfect for a sports scooter. Mind it, it still isn’t as soft as say a Jupiter or Access, people coming from commuter scooters and bikes will still find it hard. But after riding my friend’s new Aerox, I can say that it is actually good enough. Now my Indo spec shocks are softer than even the updated suspension but sometimes I feel that they are a bit softer than I would have liked them to be.

Coming to the front suspension, I found my old Aerox’s front suspension to be on the softer side so I ended up replacing the fork oil with Motul 20W oil, 60ml per fork. That made a good improvement in terms of stability and it wasn’t bottoming out anymore. When I was changing the fork oil, I noticed that my forks had ‘Made in Indonesia’ written on them. Recently when I rode my friend’s new Aerox, I noticed that it was bottoming very easily, even more so than mine did when mine was on the stock fork oil. So I ended up changing his fork oil as well to the Motul 20W and used 62ml per fork as he is a bit heavier than me. What surprised me was that while the front end did become more stable and wasn’t bottoming as easily, it still was occasionally bottoming out which wasn’t the case with mine even though I filled a slightly lower quantity of oil in mine. I didn’t see the ‘Made in Indonesia’ stamp on the new ones and I’m guessing they have localised the manufacturing of the front forks. That must have something to do with the softer forks.

So for people with the updated Aerox who are going to change the fork oil, go for 65ml per fork of Motul 20W. That should be perfect.

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