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Main Area => General GS500 Discussion => Topic started by: BadBatzMaru on June 22, 2004, 03:54:31 PM

Title: Fork length and ride height
Post by: BadBatzMaru on June 22, 2004, 03:54:31 PM
What is the length of the stock GS fork tubes??  I have fork legs off of a 89 gsxr 1100 and never compared the lengths before I got rid of my stockers... I think the 1100's are 1" longer than the 750's... anyway what is the proper way of setting the front ride height??
Title: Fork length and ride height
Post by: zlei on June 22, 2004, 04:59:17 PM
The way I would do it is to take the bike out for a ride and determine how much effort it takes to steer the front. Then I would raise the forks in the tripple a few mm at a time and find a point where it has good responsive steering without stablity problems; namely twitchy head shake.