Con Rod wrote:Tis the season.
The point Cobba is making, and it is a good point is is that fiddling with the shock linkage on your bike is all well and good and should be encouraged but taking a tired shock to start with is possibly not the best way to get improvement to the stock set up.
By raising the rear you will get a better tip in. Dropping the forks through the yokes will also do do this.
But I am not clear on what improvement the swapping the linkage will give you other than raising the rear.
I have a yzf750 frame in the garage so I might pull it out and take some measurements for comparison
Also how far over do you need to go on the side stand
Not sure if this has been done before so thanks for posting. Could you post a picture of your bike side on. I am interested to see how the height increase looks.
Here she is!
Link to original bigger pic mod-edit: Linking to images on hosting sites is a bitch
Happy New Year by the way to ALL of you in Australia!!!
ps sorry for being a ted sensitive earlier, I tend to get a bit peeved when someone in another country tells me my shock looks like s**t and works much the same without having ridden it!
For the whole time I've owned her I had the shock set hard which left it a little unforgiving slash 'responsive' but now with the extra height I can afford to back off the settings to improve the damping in the rear not to mention static sag and all that jazz! Shes much nicer now anyway and boy will she rock when I can afford a shock rebuild/upgrade.....
Either way I do intend to get it rebuilt/replaced but I have no money (400+ here in NZ) to do so as yet, but I did have a YZF linkage lying round so thought I'd try out a theory.
Am getting my sidestand 'lengthened'
to compensate for the massive stationary lean angle.I had in mind a Hyperpro spring and a Racetech shock Emulator, has anyone had any experience with these mods?
All your help is much appreciated and i'll try to be less sensitive in future.
