to compensate for less weight on the front wheel?

Or just because Suzuki likes playing with your mind...

Northy how do you do it - I guessed and ebded up considering green as my answer, mind you I was thinking about colours at the time!

The naked and s bikes are different to ride and the slightly different geometry could well be a part of it.The naked bike has the longer swingarm and has the forks a bit higher in the yokes,and the wieght distribution would be more rear biassed due to the rider sitting more upright.I ride both bikes and I think the s model turns and leans more readily than the n.Or is it just the individual bikes I ride?

You would use trigonometry … you can measure the angle the swingarm is at therefore you would know theta and you know/measure the length of the hypotenuse (swinger length) and you want to know the length of the ‘opposite’

Then you would use the 'sine rule'. (look it up on the net if you can't remember).

The long and short of it (if you pardon the pun :lol:) is that bearing in mind that the angle is quite shallow, that 10mm increase in Swingarm length (Hypotenuse) will make minimal difference in height (opposite). Without measuring stuff to actually calculate, we are probably talking no more than 1-3mm, lets face it even if the swinger was at 90deg (its prolly about 30deg?!) then it would only be 10mm!!!! Not worth the effort!!!

Er, yeah, what he said :) SOH CAH TOA and all that.

As it's a curvy can you not use the Haversine Formula?Sperical Trig and all that. :roll:

Look what I've started now!!!