Progressive Drop In Lowering Kit and Fork Oil?
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Mine sits perfect but I have a taller 21 inch tire up front. And yes, I needed a new 1 inch shorter kick stand and kick stand extension so I could reach the thing. Without the shorter stand, the bike would fall over if I cut the wheel all the way to the right.
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Oh; and where did you source the shorter kickstand?
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Way too technical questions for me. You'll need smarter members than me to answer those types of questions correctly. Heres what I CAN tell you. I lost about two total inches in the front forks with the kit and just over 1/2 an inch in the back. I probablly picked back up around 3/4 inches with the installation the 21 inch wheel and tire. I only say that due to the fact the god-awful fender gap that the 19 inch tire had is for the most part gone with the installation of the 21 inch tire and wheel. So my closest estimate is the .6 of an inch is gone in the back and about 1 - 1 1/4 inches is gone in the front. The 1 inch lower kickstand makes the bike sit almost exactly as it did with the stock suspension and standard kickstand. I know I **** off the technical guru's when I say stuff like "there is more than ample trail in dyna's" that I have ZERO worries about handeling issue's when we're only talking about such small drops, but still, those guys are better suited to chime in here than me. Bottom line is that if you lower the back an inch, try to lower the front a similar amount. The progressive kit is height adjustable with no more that a cut on the adjustment tube. I cut mine to 5.0 inches because I was adding the 21. If I had a 19 inch wheel I probally would have cut it to 5.75. But thats just me. Better to cut it long and be too tall with the ability to cut it again, than cut it too short and have to get another PVC tube.
Oh yeah. Bought the kickstand on ebay for 60 bucks.
Oh yeah. Bought the kickstand on ebay for 60 bucks.
Last edited by bikerlaw; Sep 17, 2009 at 11:38 AM.
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Way too technical questions for me. You'll need smarter members than me to answer those types of questions correctly. Heres what I CAN tell you. I lost about two total inches in the front forks with the kit and just over 1/2 an inch in the back. I probablly picked back up around 3/4 inches with the installation the 21 inch wheel and tire. I only say that due to the fact the god-awful fender gap that the 19 inch tire have is for the most part gone with the installation of the 21 inch tire and wheel. So my closest estimate is the .6 of an inch is gone in the back and about 1 - 1 1/4 inches is gone in the front. The 1 inch lower kickstand makes the bike sit almost exactly as it did with the stock suspension and standard kickstand. I know I **** off the technical guru's when I say stuff like "there is more than ample trail in dyna's" that I have ZERO worries about handeling issue's when where only talking about such small drops, but still, those guys are better suited to chime in here than me. Bottom line is that if you lower the back an inch, try to lower the front a similar amount. The progressive kit is height adjustable with no more that a cut on the adjustment tube. I cut mine to 5.0 inches because I was adding the 21. If I had a 19 inch wheel I probally would have cut it to 5.75. But thats just me. Better to cut it long and be too tall with the ability to cut it again, than cut it too short and have to get another PVC tube.
Oh yeah. Bought the kickstand on ebay for 60 bucks.
Oh yeah. Bought the kickstand on ebay for 60 bucks.
Hopefully one of the suspension gurus on teh forum will chime in but the way I see it is that on a Street Bob to get a level set up.......you need to lower the front 1/2 to 5/8 of an inch more than the rear.......eg: one inch shorter shocks in the back (11") should equate to about an inch and a half lower in the front.....
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The reason i went 2 in the front is to get it to set even.I played with the front to get it right.I did not change the fork oil and it rides great.TheSB is higher in the front then the rear from the factory so lowering the front 2 made it set perfect.
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Awesome.........that's exactly what I wanted to know - thanks
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Damnit powerlab, you just made me go order the dang lowering blocks. Thats the exact look I want. My 12 inch 412's were just not quite low enough, and with as lousy as they ride there was no way I was gonna order even shorter ones. Needless to say, your bike was all it finally took for me to order the lowering blocks to put the stock shocks back on and still have the look I want. That bike sits perfect! At least from my point of view. Now I'm gonna figure out how I can get my spare 12 inch chrome covers on those 12.6 stockers if it kills me.
Last edited by bikerlaw; Sep 17, 2009 at 03:39 PM.
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thanks; that looks great....just to confirm; you have stock SB shocks (12") with one inch lowering blocks in the back; and you lowered the front 2: using the Progressive drop in kit; no change to the fork oil?
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Hey bikerlaw...youll love it..all i did was click the rear shocks up 1 click...it rides great.I went through the same thing with the shocks you did and hated the ride.The stock shocks are great. Hey crf..yes your correct..2" in front with the drop ins and 1" in back with the blocks.Stock shock oil and stock shocks. I did nothing to the kick stand...just have to watch it if its of camber wheni park it.good luck guys!! your gonna love it.... Kevin