Longer rear suspension link length will lower the rear end and if done should be very slight. Not because it changes the linkage ratio starting point, (as this Engineer points out), but because it does not reduce the travel in the same amount as it lowers the bike. So if you got one and lowered your rear end, what ever it was lowered, also travels up into your rear fender (some stock systems will hit the underside of the fender a bit.), as you bottom out. If your longer link lowered your bike by .25", when you bottom out, it will want to jam through your fender by .25". Wanna hit the rear brake for that critical moment when casing a double or triple? You won't even know what hit you. Best off to stay stock, and set the sag for steering control. By the way, very important. As we do business having communist china make our well designed parts, we empower communism because production creates the best prosperity. We will be very sorry that we mixed our free enterprise with communism. But like the rear wheel jamming into the underside of your fender when casing a jump, we will probably not know what hit us. 61 years old, in manufacturing with several degrees, since the age of 18, and know the difference between our free enterprise and communism very well, (17 year study there right now, from the perspective of the free person and free market producer.). I saw it all go away. The fact is, (I am sorry to say), that everybody who took their production to communism in china, (or the littler likes), is partly responsible for handing over our free enterprise (that free people created in the first place), to communism so it can fund itself and is now taking over Western Culture. That sucks. The move was made attractive, and we fell for it. That sucks. PS: Ayn Rand was pretty much right. The producers are the real "Hero's"! But not compatible with communism. I am suppose to die of cancer soon, so I won't live through much more future. Good luck everybody. Doug in Michigan Very skilled machinist, engineer, (could not find a job after college because of the outsourcing to china), and now small, one man business owner.
Longer rear suspension link length will lower the rear end and if done should be very slight. Not because it changes the linkage ratio starting point, (as this Engineer points out), but because it does not reduce the travel in the same amount as it lowers the bike. So if you got one and lowered your rear end, what ever it was lowered, also travels up into your rear fender (some stock systems will hit the underside of the fender a bit.), as you bottom out. If your longer link lowered your bike by .25", when you bottom out, it will want to jam through your fender by .25". Wanna hit the rear brake for that critical moment when casing a double or triple? You won't even know what hit you. Best off to stay stock, and set the sag for steering control.
By the way, very important. As we do business having communist china make our well designed parts, we empower communism because production creates the best prosperity. We will be very sorry that we mixed our free enterprise with communism. But like the rear wheel jamming into the underside of your fender when casing a jump, we will probably not know what hit us. 61 years old, in manufacturing with several degrees, since the age of 18, and know the difference between our free enterprise and communism very well, (17 year study there right now, from the perspective of the free person and free market producer.). I saw it all go away.
The fact is, (I am sorry to say), that everybody who took their production to communism in china, (or the littler likes), is partly responsible for handing over our free enterprise (that free people created in the first place), to communism so it can fund itself and is now taking over Western Culture. That sucks. The move was made attractive, and we fell for it. That sucks.
PS: Ayn Rand was pretty much right. The producers are the real "Hero's"! But not compatible with communism. I am suppose to die of cancer soon, so I won't live through much more future. Good luck everybody.
Doug in Michigan Very skilled machinist, engineer, (could not find a job after college because of the outsourcing to china), and now small, one man business owner.
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