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kaybearjr DeleteThis @aol.comical (Kaybearjr) wrote in
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  >>From: "wengr" wengr DeleteThis @worldnet.att.net
 >
  >>hello, what might be the result if I was to lower my bike with
  >>lowering links
 > in the rear but not in the front as much or at all?
 >
 > The steering will feel slower and take less effort...

Confirmed... My wife's Daytona is lowered nearly two inches at the seat and
nearly four inches at the tail. It's a pretty striking contrast to my
bike. Works great for her, and she's 5'7"

It handles as described, but it is still relatively quick, and she rides
very spiritedly. When I ride it, I notice only a slight decrease in it's
"flickability" compared to mine.

Good luck,

Steve

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 >From: Steve bugger-off RemoveThis @spam.com

 >It handles as described, but it is still relatively quick, and she rides very
spiritedly. When I ride it, I notice only a slight decrease in it's
"flickability" compared to mine.

There is a difference in the "seat of the pants" feel of where the bike's
center of mass is, when the front end has been raised, or the back end lowered,
in relation to the original show room set up...

Lowering the rear end makes a bike feel like it's pivoting around the rear tire
contact patch, instead of around its
own center of mass...

I've experimented with lowering the front end of my GSXR, as much as an inch.
The steering felt a lot heavier. It helped the initial turn-in, which was fine
for single turns of a certain radius, but once the bike had started turning one
way, it wouldn't flick the other way, so I was loosing fractions of seconds in
S-curves...<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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 > kaybearjr.DeleteThis@aol.comical (Kaybearjr) wrote: >I've experimented with lowering
the front end of my GSXR, as much as an inch.
 >The steering felt a lot heavier. It helped the initial turn-in, which was
 >fine
 >for single turns of a certain radius, but once the bike had started turning
 >one
 >way, it wouldn't flick the other way, so I was loosing fractions of seconds
 >in
 >S-curves...
 >

Yet he earlier wrote:
The steering will feel slower and take less effort...

Did you just contradict yourself or am I reading this wrong?

Tim<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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 >From: tdwfl RemoveThis @aol.com (TDWFL)

 >Yet he earlier wrote: The steering will feel slower and take less effort...
Did you just contradict yourself or am I reading this wrong?

Nope.

The original poster wanted to know about lowering the back end, without
lowering the front end, so I said that the steering would feel slower and take
less effort...

Then I talked about lowering the front end without lowering the back end...

The steering gets quicker and heavier feeling...<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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