Topic: How do I get my bike to sit like this?

[nlesniak]

I know lowering a bike changes the way it was built and will no longer ride how it was supposed to and I am making up for my shortcomings in the bedroom, haha. But I love the aesthetic of the stance of this bike and am trying to figure out how to get my 750 to sit like this one.

Thanks

[scunny]

from the clearance or lack of between the head light and front fender I would say remove the fork springs and you'll be good to go. avoid bumps

[MickeyX]

shorter rear shocks and push the forks up through the trees.  

[traveler]

1.  Go to CRC2 online, and buy some "shorty" rear shocks and install

2.  remove the exhaust, place a jack under the bike to hold the weight, and release all four clamps holding your fork tubes....then lower the jack down to where the bike sits level.

3.  Now, the fork tubes are sticking up past your top tree.  Measure how much tube is sticking up past the flush point....that is how much you need to machine off the fork tubes.  Disassemble the forks, have a machinist mill off the excess length, and re-install.

4.  Remeber, the bike will handle AWFUL, as you will not be able to corner hardly at all with little to no ground clearance.

P.S.  You need to make an introduction post.

~Joe
 

[Motoguy23]

Make sure you drop the front the same as the back so you don't throw off the rake or trail or whatever...

[scunny]

is that front fender mounted to the lower triple ? bet it's still got no travel, or should I say.....hope theres no travel

[nlesniak]

What about using 550 forks? How low would that get me?

Also, yes I doplan on lowering the front and rear to the same level, I don't want any rake to it at all. My concept is to have the head light just above the front tire and that body line below the tank through the seat frame to be parallel to the ground. Which seems pretty close in thAt pic.

So if I drop the front that much, will I be able to match it in the rear with just shorter shocks? Or will I need the blocks too? Or more?

Thanks again for all the help
oh yeah, hey guys, I'm nick, been playing with cars for sometime now, and for whatever reason picked up a bike at the end of last season, rode it till it was too cold for the tires to grip just cruising. It's a 75 cb750 k, sat all winter and now realized a few parts need to be fixed, so now I'm getting carried away and trying to do it all.

Nick

[BeSeeingYou]

Can't see how you can ride that on anything but the smoothest of pavement.  How do you keep the fender from bashing into the headlight and maybe the headers.  Sorry but it is one of the dumber ideas I have seen in awhile.

[crazypj]

why worry, its a trailer queen, as long as exhaust doesn't get hung up on ramp its not a problem
Better way to 'shorten' forks is to fit spacer to damper rod.
Shortening tubes doesn't work so well if you don't shorten travel, good chance something bad will happen.
Here's some Suzuki forks I 'shortened' for XS650 Yamaha.
This is at 3.5" but I went from 5.1" to 2.5" travel (too much, going back to 3.5")
 No cutting or machining of tubes, it can be put back to stock in about an hour.
 just strip down and fit old valve spring under damper rod piston then cut some PVC pipe for shorter spring spacer



PJ
 

[cosmo]

^^I agree, I looked at this http://www.lowbrowcustoms.com/index.php?l=page_view&p=tech_how_to_shorten_triumph_forks as a guideline when I did mine, it's really simple.  As stated above just loosen the clamps on the tubes and push them up through the trees to see where the ride looks best.  Using a 2x4 on top the front tire and under the lower tree helps to dial in the height, re-tighten and measure the amount that is sticking through the trees and that's your spacer size.

[nlesniak]

So for the front, I think I will go the route of the pvc spacers. Does using 550 forks offer any advantage since they are already shorter?

What about for the rear? Will 11" shocks be that much of a drop or will I have to do the blocks? or is there another option for the rear?

[033A2]

I thought mine sat low...

I used the lowering lit from Cycle Xchange.  Dropped the front and back 2" each.  You can see in that pic that he pushed the tubes up through the clamps a good ways.  Look where his clip-ons are attached.  Can't imagine it's a comfy ride, but it looks cool as hell.

[nlesniak]

033A2  what exhaust is that?

[traveler]

I'd recommend you do what he has done right there.  That first bike basically has rigid forks (no springs at all).

Works fine in California with smooth roads.....anywhere else it is just plain DUMB.

~Joe

[033A2]

033A2  what exhaust is that?

MAC exhaust.  Nice throaty rumble to it, but not too loud or obnoxious. 
K.

[motocyconomad]

DONT DO IT.!.

otherwise listen to MickeyX

[Really?]

-2 cyclex tubes and slid up the tree over an inch.  16" rim and shortie shocks.  This is a different bike from the one above although it does look somewhat close.  This is the wifes bike.

[754]

 I must be really dumb.. cuz my bike is lower than that at the back, has no rear shocks.. but yet can still do 600 miles a day on roads in BC, Wa, Idaho, Nevada & Utah....

 I run high pipes, front end is lowered about 1.5 inches (run lower than that at the drags) the sidestand mount is cut off, and at that point with bike level the frame is 4 inches off the ground.. and No pipes underneath to get in the way..so it still corners a bit.

 I like the look, center of gravity is so low, I can grb the middle of the bars and push it around with 1 hand..

 I say slam it..  can go back if you dont like it..