HELP Please with rear shocks

so if we dont know why are wearing camo pants ,do we really need em

is a glove on one hand to cook or break dance

531blackbanshee wrote: here is a good (old)article.

davestestsandarticles.weebly.com/uploads...stoct77susbasics.pdf

hth,

leon

Nice find! The OP shouldn't need any more info than that.

531blackbanshee wrote: here is a good (old)article.

davestestsandarticles.weebly.com/uploads...stoct77susbasics.pdf

hth,

leon

Thanks to all who replied 531 blackbanshee thanks for the article it was a good read. Decided to go with a YSS rear shocks it is length adjustable so can play around if need be when i get a new swinger. that the theory any way. Shocks should be here this week will post pic if anyone is interested.

KidKawie off the topic i have just finished a 83 RZ350, have an RD but thats a real long termer (bit each year) Go the strokes!

Id say buy youre swingarm first,once you get the shocks youre stuck with them

531blackbanshee wrote: moving the bottom of the shocks toward the back of the bike will make them stiffer....

AMEN!

For example, generic "lowering blocks" relocate the lower shock mount rearward about 2 inches, while leaving the top shock mount in its original location.

Where lowering blocks are fitted, using the same springs on the same shocks, the resulting suspension becomes uncomfortably rigid as if the shocks had been replaced with solid struts.

Best to go ahead and schedule early appointments with the dentist and chiropractor.

Good Fortune!

KidKawie off the topic i have just finished a 83 RZ350, have an RD but thats a real long termer (bit each year) Go the strokes![/quote]

we will look at pictures of two strokes also :lol: !

i have an rd400 that i plan to install a banshee engine into,it's in the dust collecting stages right now :laugh: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

leon

p.s. post up some pics of the yss shocks i have thought of buying some,but ..............

sled wrote: KidKawie off the topic i have just finished a 83 RZ350, have an RD but thats a real long termer (bit each year) Go the strokes!

Those are cool bikes. I'd like to find a Kaw AR80. Impossible in the US tho.

kid,
loudhvx had a buddy that was wanting to sell an ar80 in chicago.

prolly gone by now tho.

i really wanted it but wasn't in the position to buy another project.

leon

i guess there are the spring adjustments on the bottom, on the top of my kz750h there is a round turning thing that the spring resides inside of with numbers on it. on mine one of them clicks when i turn it and the other doesn't my back has been hurting probably because of this.< a little lopsided :blink: that is of the rear shocks and springs