• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Lowering Links?

Dirtdame

Dirtdame

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I'm getting tired of tippy-toeing around on my 07 TE450 (I'm actually tired of tippy-toeing around on almost any full sized bike). But I was wondering if anybody knows of anyone out there that might manufacture shock links that will bring the bike down about an inch. I figure if I drop the front end and the back both an inch, it would help me. I don't want to go too low and lose ground clearance. But an inch would be good.:thumbsup:
 
I'm not a big fan of lowering links because the change suspension geometry. Most suspension shops can lower the ride height by installing spacers (limiters) in the forks and shocks.
 
The forks can be slipped up in the stanchions an inch without bottoming. I could install a spacer between the piston and bumper on the shaft, but I like the idea of the links. I've seen them successfully installed on other brands of bikes and like the idea that they can be easily accessed without shock removal or disassembly. I don't know if a one inch drop will significantly change the lever ratio on the linkage.:excuseme:
 
Dirtdame;17525 said:
The forks can be slipped up in the stanchions an inch without bottoming. I could install a spacer between the piston and bumper on the shaft, but I like the idea of the links. I've seen them successfully installed on other brands of bikes and like the idea that they can be easily accessed without shock removal or disassembly. I don't know if a one inch drop will significantly change the lever ratio on the linkage.:excuseme:
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It's not so much the lever ratio as it is the rate of compression, I'm not saying that they don't work and in some cases they may actually improve
ride quality or handling but I have also seen people hugely disappointed after installing them.
 
lowering

if you combine the link with cutting the subframe 15mm or so, and a slight trim of the seat foam you can shorten it up about 65 mm. you would want to have somebody revalve the shock to work with the link if you are a A or fast b rider IMHO... the link does change things up quite a bit. :D:D
 
Thanks to you guys for all the input. I think I have enough information to get the bike a bit lower now.:)
 
I've got a Kouba HL-2 1.5" link with maybe 100 miles on it that will fit your bike. I don't need it. It's yours for $85. including shipping. PM me.
 
I have fitted the Kouba 1.5 link and have been very happy with it. Very easy to install, doesn't cost alot, and you can keep it when you sell the bike.
If you are an enduro god you may notice the geometery differences, but I can't tell.
 
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