Ness Drop Kit BLOWS!!!!
Road Master
Joined: Apr 2009
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This one is funnier.
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Joined: Jan 2005
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From: My house
You didn't put the progressives in last night??
I'm looking into doing something to my RK it's been lowered so I have that strike, but it's not a terrible bad ride, except on a pot hole or hard bump at speed on the freeway, but any improvement would help, time to change the fork oil which might help some, so I thought since I had to take so much apart I might look into doing some springs or something.
I'm looking into doing something to my RK it's been lowered so I have that strike, but it's not a terrible bad ride, except on a pot hole or hard bump at speed on the freeway, but any improvement would help, time to change the fork oil which might help some, so I thought since I had to take so much apart I might look into doing some springs or something.
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Short lengths of PVC are old school tech to increase spring preload. Low tech, but works and is very cheap. Get a couple of feet of PVC pipe and cut 2 pieces at 1/2", 2 @ 3/4" and so forth. You can play with the amount of preload until the ride is right. What I don't understand is their advice to use heavier oil. A heavier weight fork oil will slow down the first compression (bump), but it will also slow down the recovery (rebound). On a rough road the rebound gets behind the compression far enough and pretty soon you are locked down at the bottom. What increasing the preload will do is reduce your static sag (free compression of the springs that happen when the bike isn't moving). I'm not sure how increasing preload will fix a damping problem.
Unfortunately stock Harley's are equipped with only marginal suspension. Lowering one of them by reducing suspension travel is not normally going to improve the ride. Good luck.
Unfortunately stock Harley's are equipped with only marginal suspension. Lowering one of them by reducing suspension travel is not normally going to improve the ride. Good luck.
Road Warrior
Joined: Jul 2007
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From: WA - The State
When are you getting the Progressives put in, or have they arrived yet?
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Hi guys!
I have acouple of other registered names I'm going to use, too. They're just not quite so obvious as this one.
Man, you guys are TOO easy to get a rise out of. Insecure much? lol.
(you should know that these days there's no way to ban someone from a forum. Proxys beat vBulletin all day long. I'm not going anywhere)
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Oh, and while I really dig the vid of the squid on the SV650 plowing the tree - you should really think about it a little deeper:
Rider with no helmet who obviously doesn't know how to ride running off of the road into a tree. Sounds a lot more like your typical Harley rider than your usual sport biker.
Anyway, here's the video I had originally posted. It's Lee Shierts running a 7 second pass on a GSX-R1000. Your real moto-aficionados will appreciate it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXWkdppa7dU
gl
Rider with no helmet who obviously doesn't know how to ride running off of the road into a tree. Sounds a lot more like your typical Harley rider than your usual sport biker.
Anyway, here's the video I had originally posted. It's Lee Shierts running a 7 second pass on a GSX-R1000. Your real moto-aficionados will appreciate it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXWkdppa7dU
gl