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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: New Zealand
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lowering question
ok so basically the previous owner of my bike took the rear suspension off and replaced them with short rods to the point where the seat is just above the rear wheel. i put the suspension back on today to see what it looked like and it just wont do. so im wondering if there is a way to still have a lower bike but with the suspenion on. compressed springs? shortened shocks? after market? or perhaps the suspenion from another bike? :??:
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Re: lowering question
Compressing the springs means nothing is the housing itself is still a certain length. The Rat-rod or street builder trick for doing this is making some homemade dog bones out of some bar stock. Determine what length you want them to be, have someone add some eye holes on each end and slap them on the back. This makes your bike a hard tail, so if you don't want to vibrate your nuts off, you'll need to add some springs to your seat.
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Re: lowering question
I didn't think there were aftermarket shocks n springs for the gz250?
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Re: lowering question
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Re: lowering question
cheers for that. yet another question... my bikes set up for eye to eye type shocks. does that mean i'm stuck with that particular type or is it easy enough to modify the bottom to fit the "clevis" SORRY for all the terribly noobish questions :retard:
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Re: lowering question
I would stay with the "eye to eye" as that is the most popular & widely used.These are the ones I used.But if you can find a set for a S40 you won't need to do anything but install them
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