Where the original bike doesn't have provision for ride height adjustment independent of preload adjustment, the better quality aftermarket shocks sometimes have one end eye/fork threaded for precisely that reason.
Adjustable tie bars for the SV: I don't think this is a good move due the necessity of making sure they were both absolutely identically adjusted so that the bearings in the linkage didn't have any out of true load placed on it.
Changing the length of the tie bars doesn't alter the suspension ratio, the easiest way change the ratio, (for any given length shock; changing the shock length will alter the position in the rate curve ever so slightly, but not the rate itself precisely), would be to fit a linkage with different centres.
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If an SV650 has a flat tyre in the forest and no-one is there to blow it up, how long will it be 'til someone posts that the reg/rec is duff and the world will end unless a CBR unit is fitted? A little bit of knowledge = a dangerous thing.
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