92 gsxr 750 rear shock

[Church6360]

just finished putting my new rear shock on my bike, came from a 92 gsxr 750.  

had to do some grinding to get the clearence that it needed.
before, i could flat foot the bike no prob, now, it's not quite possible.

to give you an idea of the heighth increase, my center stand barely works now, only one leg of the center stand will touch down at a time.

pantablo mentions it here
http://pantablo500.tripod.com/id12.html

the shock i used isn't pictured, it has the remote resivoir, and i can attest to the shear ammount of little problems with fitting this shock.

i'm still cripled by dial-up, but pics will come soon.

i unfortunately did it today before i found this at the bottom of pantablo's page.
http://www.bikepower.net/gs500e-power/gs500e-power.htm

once i've got the bike up and moving again i'll post on how it feels.

[pantablo]

thats what I was running too. My page has a little sidestand extension how-to if interested. the shock makes a world of difference.

[Church6360]

i could tell just by sitting on it, i'm much heaftier than pantablo. and before it was like sitting on jell-o, now it feels like sitting on a gsxr 750 (imagine that).

now i really need progressive springs for my front.

[pantablo]

updating the front end more necessary now. should have done that at same time or before shock, really.

[davipu]

I'm still running stock fork springs.   you will either hate it or get really smoooooooooooth on the throttle.

[Church6360]

yeah, i do really need the progressive springs in the front, and should have done that first.

but it was one of thoes things where i had the oppertunity to sell my bike and buy a 1979 gs750e in very nice shape. i decided the 750 was just too heavy and lacked the twisty carving nature i have come to love in the 500.

so to validate keeping a bike whose gas tank was basically shot, and needed alot of work, i dedided to get serious and just take the bike apart and put it back together with the parts i should have installed over the winter.

Whew!

we'll see how it turns out in a few weeks here.