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Posted: 18:19 - 15 May 2011 Post subject: |
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You offroading it?
Need to have a word with your council if you are bottoming it out on the road (and have the springrate and preload set remotely right) surely?
I noticed the difference immediately I fitted the dogbones
steering angle change made cornering feel a lot more reactive in a good way
Only time I got any straight line oddness (headshake) was when I relied on the swing arm markings after a chain tightenng session
(used some string last time I did it and fitted a scottoiler....so not had to adjust it since...but would never do it without the string thing again)
Going "too far" I would assume make it very nervous in a straight line....how far is too far?....I dunno...
Dropping the front end by moving the forks in the yokes will let you experiment to see how radical you can get with steering angles without having to strip down the rear end each time
still worth going on ex-500.com as theres a couple of guys that have done all there is to do steering and suspension wise on these commuters and possibly could tell you what they found was "too far"
(IIRC "Dad" did a very good writeup in getting the suspension setup/dialled in and "Fog" used to race them...so between them they have pretty much exhausted all the mods available in that department)
IIRC the "ultimate rear shock" (works?) is quite rare and chuffing pricey
It would also involve more expense on getting the front to work properly
..would be a complete waste for me considering that I am a newbie to 2 wheels and I mainly just pootle to work and back on it and the occasional ride out for fun and use it as a commuter with no pretence otherwise
(bearing in mind my previous bikes have been a CG125 and a CJ360t from 1976...this GPZ handles leap years ahead of anything else I have ever been on, I imaging getting on a bike that was designed in the 90's or heaven forbid something more recent I would laugh at the GPZ's handling)
Other rears that will fit?
IIRC the SV rear can be made to fit without too much work and also raises the rear end a bit
Don't recall reading anything else is as easy to bolt on
Fog sells the dogbones and could /possibly/ tell you what dimensions they are for what height differences and what the optimum dog bone length is to ensure proper shock stroke / leverage ratio etc
I can no longer login to ex-500.com as I'm banned so cannot look any of this stuff up for you and I'm working from my unreliable memory
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 12 years, 350 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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