garth285
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posted April 13, 2006 07:53 PM
some pics of my bike lowered 2.5 in rear and 1 in front plus strap
Well today at the shop I Was thinkin man I Want to lower my bike 2.5" in the rear....problem is is that my kick stand wont allow it to stil upright.....so since Im sooo smart I had an idea.......Dritbikes use small triangluar kick stands, why couldnt I get one for my bike......well some 1/2 rod stock a torch and a vise grip later I mad emy own to fit in my swingarm axle. so the bike is dropped now!
I lowered it threw the forks 1" and 2.5 threw the dog bones. gunna run at the track friday night
   
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CrotchRocket
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posted April 13, 2006 08:02 PM
I have one of those stands...They work good and are only $15 !!!
Garth you can strap the front down a little more, looks Good!!! 
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garth285
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posted April 13, 2006 08:13 PM
yeha I had some metal stock layin aroudn the shop that was 3 feet long so I made the sides 14" long, the bottom I think 6 or 7"s and the insert abotu 1.2-2"s
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nitrous347
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posted April 14, 2006 12:23 AM
looks good ,but please wash that m.f.
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garth285
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posted April 14, 2006 05:02 AM
I know I usually wash it at work cause this damn dirt road gets dirt EVERYWHERE
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longy00000
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posted April 14, 2006 09:44 AM
Being a mere Brit can someone please explain to me WHY you yanks have this thing of strapping down the front of the bike? It dont look THAT good and would completely screw up the handling.
Other Brits have said that you do it cos you only have straight roads and cant corner anyway so it makes no difference if you screw up the handling. That cannot be a true representation or reason for doing it so please take a few minutes out and enlighten me......
Bemused.
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swft
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posted April 14, 2006 10:50 AM
Actually you are right. Most yanks can't ride a bike in anything cept a straight line.
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Eric_The_Jew
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posted April 14, 2006 03:26 PM
Garth, get that bike out of the dirt boy!!! :P
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garth285
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posted April 14, 2006 09:33 PM
soon soon!!!! moving off a dirt road soon :-D
as for straps, I use them to lower the bike even lower jsut for drag racing, I went out to the track and got down to 10.319 @ 137.65.
Im gunan raise the bike bak up to stock height again though tomm to ride aroudn till wensday and go out again with a skinko race tire
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otto65
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posted April 15, 2006 03:49 AM
Hey Longy and swft, If it wasnt for us yanks you guys would be speaking german.
But anyway ,we lower the bike to improve the 1/4 mile times.
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04ZX10
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posted April 15, 2006 06:49 AM
do u need the caliper mount bracket on front to use the strap, can u give me a close up pic of how yours is mounted on caliper, and how it looks going over top by tank
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swft
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posted April 15, 2006 09:42 AM
*blink* I would?? Wow! There must be a reason I wanted to take German. 
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garth285
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posted April 15, 2006 02:42 PM
Heres pics of my front lowering strap. I didnt have to use the strap mounting kit but I liked the neat-ness of the brackets and it keeps the srap from rubbing against anything.
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longy00000
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posted April 16, 2006 03:38 AM
otto65, you really must try harder than that mate.
It was of course really nice of the yanks to turn up for the last 5 minutes though, i am sure everyone appreciated it.
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otto65
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posted April 16, 2006 04:09 AM
Longyoo,Sorry I cant get motivated to try harder. Just felt a little miffed at someones comment. If you ever cross the pond I can show you some lovely twisty roads over here.
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04ZX10
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posted April 16, 2006 11:26 AM
thanks for the pics.
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garth285
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posted April 16, 2006 11:54 AM
no prob
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CrotchRocket
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posted April 16, 2006 04:00 PM
The Brocks Strap mount is nice!!!
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salsa1
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posted April 16, 2006 05:18 PM
"I went out to the track and got down to 10.319 @ 137.65."
Looks to me like your getting experience with the ZX-10R .. shinko , aftermarket exhaust , pcbIII and custom map might get you knocking on nines.. thats plenty decent for a licenced street bike I would think...
looking good!!
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garth285
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posted April 16, 2006 07:19 PM
Thanx man......I think I could hit mabey a 9.99 if I had a real good decent 60' its jsut hard getitn them down right but at the end of the night my last and best run I felt real comfortable on the bike with launching as u can see my times were dropping pretty good.
I'll be hittin up the strip again on wensday night with the bike lowered 2.5" rear and 2" frotn with the strap, I thikn if its a lil bit more down I Can keep the front end down a lil better so we shall see.
Thanx guys!
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