Also, if you drop the front too far you can end up in a situation where the forks will hit hard parts before they bottom out. There was a guy on the ER6 forum who dropped his front by 4 inches, total cretin, then he went over a high kerb and bang, forks into yokes, broke his thumbs

Same guy had been telling teh entire internetz how great this mod was, and how it made him superfast in a straight line