HOW TO LOWER YOUR 2004 YAMAHA YZF-R6.

[annguyen1981]

[The Buddha]

I don't think i would buy a bike that i would need to lower. I don't trust or understand how lowering kits work but i guess it would really fook up something like handling/steering etc... Thankfully i havn't found a bike yet that has been what i would consider too tall. 5'11"

Spoken like a true tall person! 

Oh yea ... spoken like a person who needs to learn how to ride.
If you need to put your feet down, I mean if you really really need to ... buy a freaking cruiser ... or a bicycle or something and learn the physics of riding.
Yea I reach terra firma with most things, but on my neighbors DR ... I dont, and I had no problem riding that thing. Yea keeping up with freeway traffic was PITA ... the blooming thing is geared to get out of ruts and climb hills, not to keep up with grandpa's Oldsmobile Roadyacht on the freaking freeway. Can you say redline ...
I will buy a DR650 or somehting that actually can make highway speeds easily ... maybe a old transalp or something or an ascot ... its pure fun ...
Cool.
Srinath.

[pandy]

Oh yea ... spoken like a person who needs to learn how to ride.
If you need to put your feet down, I mean if you really really need to ... buy a freaking cruiser ... or a bicycle or something and learn the physics of riding.

But *I* haven't had any ACCIDENTS. How many ACCIDENTS have YOU had, Mr. Can-Put-His-Feet-Down...And-His-Butt....And-His-Ears 

[The Buddha]

I have had plenty thank you very much, and I am slow, horribly horribly slow.
I however also run commute hours (so I am subject to tons of stressed out commuters while being one myself), run bald tires (like unless its completely smooth or has cord showing, I'd use it ... and I ride 10 different bikes, making for a very fuzzy memory. Like yesterday on my savage I ran out of gas. Yes I ran it dry. Why, I rode the maxim and virago for the last few days and I filled them up, and it never struck me before leaving home to look in the tank ... And that damn thing has no trip meter reset button which I always set to 0 when I fill.
Anyway, I have plenty of excuses, but not reaching the ground is not a reason. A crash is a crash, and even if you do reach the ground you can crash - actually that illustrates the point pretty well dont you think. So there you have it. I crash because I dont know to ride too well (or have up to date running gear) and reaching the ground has very little to do there cos I reach just fine in all bikes.
BTW Cruisers are harder to crash, but I managed that also a couple times. Lower CG and longer wheel base means it takes more time to spin around and gives you time to correct it.
Cool.
Srinath.

[werase643]

Hey, Srinath,
you do gud work on the stuff ya make .... just razzin ya....
I wouldn't do it for the $5 profit that you get.  Not worth the headache.


So if I invite you to T-day this year....what is going to be your answer....
and has your wife stopped slapping you in the head yet?

[pandy]

I have had plenty thank you very much, and I am slow, horribly horribly slow.
I however also run commute hours (so I am subject to tons of stressed out commuters while being one myself), run bald tires (like unless its completely smooth or has cord showing, <blahblahblah>

I run commute hours, my tires aren't bald, but they are stock at about 8k miles, and I suck at riding, too....we have a lot in common...   

I've never run out of gas, though.