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Offline Scott S

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Progressive Shocks
« on: February 23, 2012, 10:37:26 AM »
 Just scored these on ebay. Comments? Listed as "Progressive shocks", 13" eye to eye.

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Re: Progressive Shocks
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2012, 11:02:11 AM »
Not rebuildable, SOHC Hondas usually use eye to clevis.
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Re: Progressive Shocks
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2012, 11:16:43 AM »
Those look like eye to clevis, I think the OP mispoke.

May be not rebuildable but otherwise a fine long lasting shock. Unless your pounding it on a racetrack or multi thousand mile tours, I think you would be happy with them.

ASsuming they are not already bleeding oil, etc.
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Re: Progressive Shocks
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2012, 03:00:36 PM »
I bought Progressive shocks for my CB500 and they turned out to be pretty good.  I bought them with the "heavy duty" springs because I knew I would be touring on them.  Well, it turns out the springs were not heavy duty enough and began to sag so I replaced them with even heavier ones from Progressive.  Other than that poor spring choice by me, the Progressive shocks did in fact hold up to 10k miles of overloaded, two up touring and the bike handled pretty nicely.
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Re: Progressive Shocks
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2012, 03:06:09 PM »
I don't know Progressive shocks well enough to tell from that picture.  Have you confirmed that they're actually Progressive brand? 
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Re: Progressive Shocks
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2012, 03:33:23 PM »
 From the ad:

"Progressive Suspension Shocks for most Hondas with the clevis end on the swingarm.

They have the normal eye bolt top mount and the fork lower.

Off of a CB750, not sure of spring rates, but had a nice ride.

Big improvement over stock.

PC330   13 inch eye to eye"
 
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Offline gecko672

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Re: Progressive Shocks
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2012, 05:21:47 PM »
Ha!  I was watching those same ones as well on ebay.  I was about to bid but decided to give them a miss and use what I have for now. They did look a lot like these ones http://www.cb750supply.com/products/3/suspension without the top cover, which made me wonder about them. But good on ya anyway, they look good.
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Offline Vbled1

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Re: Progressive Shocks
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2012, 05:35:30 PM »
I run progressive shocks, i dont know the model number off the top of my head but the sticker is still on the shock 12xx something or other. I believe there is 4 different settings on mine. I find the first two settings, especially the first way to soft. I weigh 225 though so thats probably why. Other than that i like them a lot. I havent seen that set up with the two different coils like that. It looks awesome though.
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Progressive Shocks
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2012, 12:00:09 PM »
I ran progressives for almost two years, I liked them. One did start leaking at the end but I think I got about 10k out of them..
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