Dogbone sets - a warning

[dizzyblonde]

the metal jobbies either side of the mono shock, attached to the swingarm that hold your bike in position, shorter one higher the rear end, longer ones drop it down...think thats right, anyone correct me if the blonde bird is wrong.

[Sid Squid]

Originally Posted by Gnome

Standard dog bones are made from Steel, as you've said.

I'd never, ever, use ally in such a high-stress place...

Generally speaking I'd agree - however the suspension links on my Kawasaki are something very light indeed, exactly what of course I'm not sure, but it's a very light alloy whatever it is.

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

Generally speaking I'd agree - however the suspension links on my Kawasaki are something very light indeed, exactly what of course I'm not sure, but it's a very light alloy whatever it is.

Come on now, admit it, you splashed out on some titanium dogbones

I'm surprised they lasted as long 8k miles made out of ali

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

Generally speaking I'd agree - however the suspension links on my Kawasaki are something very light indeed, exactly what of course I'm not sure, but it's a very light alloy whatever it is.

steel is an alloy

Originally Posted by Gnome

Standard dog bones are made from Steel, as you've said.

I'd never, ever, use ally in such a high-stress place...

Standard GSXR1000 K1 dogbones are made from an alloy of some variety. I owned a Gixer thou at the same time as the Bandit, so using Dural seemed a logical choice as I'd seen it worked perfectly well on that bike.

Originally Posted by weazelz

unless I am mistaken, yield strengths:

ali: 50MPa
dural: 400MPa
mild steel: 350MPa

so even mild steel should be acceptable if you consider dural acceptable

Quite, but my mate pointed me at the Dural, so I took it knowing it to be superior to mild steel in this respect. Little did I know....

Originally Posted by OldBoy

I'm surprised they lasted as long 8k miles made out of ali

That can only be down to the skill of the bloke who made them

I've got a set of JHS dogbones, if they break and I live to tell the tale. I'll be following the old samurai rules about when a sword broke in battle. If the swordsman survived, he would return to sword maker and feed him every piece...

What's really scary is that three weeks previously I'd been doing enough of this...

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to do this...

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to the rear tyre on the same bike with the dodgy bones fitted