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Got my notice that mine will be here on Wednesday! Yeehaw! Got the bike all prep'd, old ones off. Straight-edged them via Howard's instructions. Sent him some pictures of the measurements in case i needed to buy any spacers. He got back to me saying they were perfect. I had about 3mm gap from the bottom to top on each side. Can't wait to get them in hand!
I mounted mine up again this weekend, and ended up using one additional spacer at the bottom on one side. I took my time and checked several different ways to ensure the shocks would be aligned properly and not put any side load on the shaft. Now the weather just needs to get better to try them out...
I mounted mine up yesterday. I ended up with no spacers in board bottom of each shock and one spacer that came with the shocks in board on top of each shock both sides were equal to each other. Haven’t been able to get my wife on the bike with me yet but with no bags and no gear and the bikes weight only with 1 turn of pre load I measure 1/2” of sag and about 1” when i sit on the bike. I haven’t actually measured when i was on the bike because no one was around to measure. I will be calling Howard tomorrow to run through the install and be sure everthing is good.
I mounted mine up yesterday. I ended up with no spacers in board bottom of each shock and one spacer that came with the shocks in board on top of each shock both sides were equal to each other. Haven’t been able to get my wife on the bike with me yet but with no bags and no gear and the bikes weight only with 1 turn of pre load I measure 1/2” of sag and about 1” when i sit on the bike. I haven’t actually measured when i was on the bike because no one was around to measure. I will be calling Howard tomorrow to run through the install and be sure everthing is good.
That is the spacer set up mine took as well...on my #2 that is but same principle.
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