longer dogbones

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

can I add to this.... I had my black bike 'jacked up' when I bought it, it made the handling sharper and I couldn't feel comfortable putting my feet down, which is the opposite of your question I know, but, with dogbones I might suggest you buy them off someone reputable no matter how high or how low you intend your bike to be,


as there are some out there that think they are selling you a favour, when in fact they are selling you something that is made of cheese and can therefore be a safety risk

I second this!!

[21QUEST]

Originally Posted by wow

The question was where to get the longer dogbones from.

The friend who is going to lower the bike for me with the dogbones is going to make sure the setup of the bike is not going to be fatal.

Bl**dy hell how serious do you take all this technical point scoring? Glad there are still a few sane people about (thanks for posting) and I can only repeat that it isn't a wonder that the girls I've had pms from about lowering bikes don't always post on the forum.

Keep it simple hey. How competitive can you get.

I once asked a girlfriend about mascara...couldn't believe something so simple could be so complicated. Apparently one could go for either liquid, cake, cream and god knows what else...and that was just the start .

People spend time giving honest and factual pointers and you decide the best thing to do is, get yourself all worked up huh !!!

Point scoring? competitive?..... on the t'internet ?



Ben

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

can I add to this.... I had my black bike 'jacked up' when I bought it, it made the handling sharper and I couldn't feel comfortable putting my feet down, which is the opposite of your question I know, but, with dogbones I might suggest you buy them off someone reputable no matter how high or how low you intend your bike to be,


as there are some out there that think they are selling you a favour, when in fact they are selling you something that is made of cheese and can therefore be a safety risk

Well said, there's a whole load of people offering advice to help WOW avoid the sort of thing shown in the photos below. That's the result of cheap aftermarket dogbones shearing at 50mph and throwing me 15 feet in the air when my old Bandit 600 suspension collapsed and made the bike highside on a North Norfolk country lane. I narrowly missed being run over by a car coming the other way after landing badly. I could post the photos of my smashed right ankle after the ensuing crash as well, but it's a U rated forum.






If WOW's got issues with taking good advice from men, especially men who really do know about these sort of things from personal experience, then maybe she should ask for her advice on one of the girl only bike forums, where she won't find people (men) "scoring points" as she so succinctly put it. Personally I couldn't give a monkey's if she does or doesn't, it's her neck on the line, not mine.

[yorkie_chris]

A big +1 about buying reputable dogbones, they're in a spot thats quite highly stressed, and as lozzo's said, it's going to hurt if they fail.

Originally Posted by 21QUEST

People spend time giving honest and factual pointers and you decide the best thing to do is, get yourself all worked up huh !!!

Originally Posted by Lozzo

Personally I couldn't give a monkey's if she does or doesn't, it's her neck on the line, not mine.

It's given me a bit of a laugh though

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

A big +1 about buying reputable dogbones, they're in a spot thats quite highly stressed, and as lozzo's said, it's going to hurt if they fail.

It still hurts 18 months after the event, and it's probably still going to hurt in 20 years time.

Lozzo, where did you get yours from? I've got longer dogbones fitted and I'm a bit worried now in case the same happens.

I haven't a clue where they came from, they were on the bike when I got it.

[flymo]

dont want to re-ignite this particular firework but.....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SV650-K3-Facto...QQcmdZViewItem

this might come in useful.

for those out there that decide to go with seat modification - i just had it done by a local upholstery shop; $40 and 1/2 hour later, seat looks better, has better shape, my wife finds it a bit harder, but more comfortable, ~3 cm lower with still lots of foam left. longer bones (3.75cm lower seat height) are are up for grabs for anyone in Ottawa, ON area.
i'll tell you right now, from my experience, it was a waste of time. seat mod acomplished the same thing, without 1/2 the troubles of bones. now i just have to lift up the front back up, adjust the lights back and kick myself in the a** for not doing this right away.
wow - don't see it as me scoring poins, or telling you what to do. this is simply my experience with lowering the SV, and the advice i wish i got last summer.

That's useful as it's going to be my next step as I would like to have my feet flat on the floor as I can't paddle it back on anything with the slightest camber like at work which I have to do every day.

3 cms that sounds good to me. Haven't worked out how that seat comes off. Will have a look in the manual first.