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Old Sep 14, 2010 | 04:42 PM
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What's the lowest shocks you can buy? the shortest i can find is 10 inch eye to eye by licks.
 
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That's probably about it. Since there is no shock absorption at that height, you may as well build/buy a set of struts instead. You can get really low that way.
 
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Skullman will shorten shocks up to 2" so if you have a set of 11.75 you can get a little less than 10" and the best part is it only runs $79 to do it.
I have had a couple of sets shortened by him and they work as good as stock and his turn around time is fast.
 
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Originally Posted by jag1886
Skullman will shorten shocks up to 2" so if you have a set of 11.75 you can get a little less than 10" and the best part is it only runs $79 to do it.
I have had a couple of sets shortened by him and they work as good as stock and his turn around time is fast.
Contact info for this fella?
 
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Contact info for this fella?
http://www.skullmanonline.com/shocks.html
 
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Skullman will shorten shocks up to 2" so if you have a set of 11.75 you can get a little less than 10" and the best part is it only runs $79 to do it.
I have had a couple of sets shortened by him and they work as good as stock and his turn around time is fast.
got any pictures of your bike with them on it?
 
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You can't really judge what your bike will look like from my bike. I am running a 2" longer swing arm with a set of 11.75 mounted in the stock location on the swing arm which lowers my bike a lot.
Skullman did build this set of shocks for me, he took them apart and added an extra set of bump stops into them to limit the travel so the tire won't drag in the top of the fender and gives a considerable better ride than struts (there's about 3/4" of travel left).
 
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that looks badass man, nice work
 
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