So I've been riding my bike with an extended swingarm, after market lowering links, and the stock spring/shock absorber. I live in southeast Kansas where we really don't have the bona fide twistie way of traveling but do have a few places we can bust a knee draggin' move or two...well, maybe two.
Anyways, after a lot of talking and reading and looking at other extended bikes, I finally settled on a spring up grade, shock lowering blocks in place of the links, and a shock absorber overhaul. I'm hoping this will give me a better position to more gracefully (and aggresively) move through the corners with the extended arm as well as the bike being lowered while still keeping the rear suspension geometry in a good position for same. I'm also hoping for more aggressive launches too but me thinks this might stiffen the rear up jest a wee bit much for lettin' 'er crouch down and spring forward...we'll see.
The spring rate is an 8.0x2.25" @ 17.8kg. Hopefully this will be heavy enough to offset the leverage increase from the swingarm extension and the weight of my big fat azz. I hope to get this and a rear skin on in time for Eureka so I can learn some better cornering skills. There was word of a few schools on 'learning to lean' wasn't there?
Anyways, after a lot of talking and reading and looking at other extended bikes, I finally settled on a spring up grade, shock lowering blocks in place of the links, and a shock absorber overhaul. I'm hoping this will give me a better position to more gracefully (and aggresively) move through the corners with the extended arm as well as the bike being lowered while still keeping the rear suspension geometry in a good position for same. I'm also hoping for more aggressive launches too but me thinks this might stiffen the rear up jest a wee bit much for lettin' 'er crouch down and spring forward...we'll see.
The spring rate is an 8.0x2.25" @ 17.8kg. Hopefully this will be heavy enough to offset the leverage increase from the swingarm extension and the weight of my big fat azz. I hope to get this and a rear skin on in time for Eureka so I can learn some better cornering skills. There was word of a few schools on 'learning to lean' wasn't there?
