Lowering the front on a curvey!

right !

i want to lower the front on my lovely curvey ! is it posible as ive heard it isnt! i think it is but !


is thire any guide to doing it?i havent done it before 2-stokes my speciality lol

so any guides or anything on the net????


thank you please rob

[northwind]

Nothing on the net that I know of, but it's dead easy. You don't even need a stand to do it if you have an S. All you're really doing is releasin the fork clamps and allowing hte forks to slide through the yokes. (By the way, I believe the absolute maximum you can have it without risking having the ftops of the forks hit the bottom yoke is about 15mm)

So, here's the clever bit. Unbolt the clip-ons, assuming you have 'em, from the yoke and also unbolt the pinch bolts that attach them to the fork tubes. Now slide them down to the requred level and retighten the pinch bolts.

Now, undo the pinch bolts that attach the yokes to the forks- the forks will slide through until the clipons are back against hte yokes. Retighten everything, and off you go

yeah its a S

um would 10 mm be sutable???

have you done it your self ?

thanks for the advice gud un \/ - wow i just found out the new emoticons lol







LOL! ok il stop

[northwind]

Mine is down 10, but then I like my handling twitchy- the rear's up an inch too I'd say drop it 5, see if you like it, get used to it, then if you like it drop it another 5. You'll find it turns into a corner much faster, but I also find it a wee bit harder to hold a clean line in a corner- not because of understeer, just because it's almost too ewasy to change direction sometimes.

Approach with caution basically, because it does give quite a difference. But I love it...

If you remove the springs and lower the front on the jack you will find that when the forks reach there maximum travel there is only a couple of mm's clearance. So raising the stauchions thru the triple clamps will mean under full compression the sliders will hit the bottom triple clamp.
It's up to you but I would think carefully about the results of doing a panic stop when this happens.

[northwind]

I did that, had just over 15mm clearance when fully bottomed out (on a curvy) so 10mm should be absolutely fine. Some models come dropped as standard (Nakeds in the US IIRC)

I dropped mine 12.5mm and raised the ass end 75mm. Looks fantastic and handles even better. Might be a little twitchy at 120mph or higher but who really drives their bike that hard besides me.

[northwind]

See, mine is perfectly stable at high speed, it's hard acceleration where it shows its displeasure Sure, it's making more power than most but I wouldn't want to be dealing with that sort of geometry on stock suspension, that's for sure

Originally Posted by northwind

I did that, had just over 15mm clearance when fully bottomed out (on a curvy) so 10mm should be absolutely fine. Some models come dropped as standard (Nakeds in the US IIRC)

the poster may be a 22 stone heefer though(no offence intended....honest) and so he may be able to bottom out the forks easier than yourself, dont you have uprated springs as well?

I dropped the front to 13mm and raised the rear by about 1.5". Like Northy says, it's twitchy on hard acceleration, and doesn't so much like to hold a line through corners, but it does improve steering quickness (not to mention looks) I just invested in a daytona steering damper so the twitchyness should go away (I hope)