How To - Install R6 Rear Shock Video

[Ski1215]

Thanks for the video. This is going to be my next mod. My gs currently handles like a poop with the rear end lowered.

What year R6 did the shock come off?

[slipperymongoose]

Its all there in the video. What year etc, and the links to the threads in this one have other info as well.

[fraze11]

Hey Fraze11, just curious...since the '09 R6 shock reservoir is smaller, will you still have to grind some of the swing arm for clearance?

Nope, I didn't grind a thing.  I have ~3mm of clearance when its resting under its own weight on the side stand and a bit more once I sit on it.  There is zero rubbing and after ~3000kms since putting it in there are no signs of any rubbing.  To my knowledge the R6 springs are the same through out the years, it was a re-designed resevoir that changed in ~08+.