The best laid plans of mice and men...
Well the hardware I was waiting for from Yamaha showed up today, sure enough I changed my course of action. Instead of shiming the upper bolt to the frame bracket, I ended up drilling out the mounting bolt hole for the new shock. Did some grinding with an under powered Dremmel Mototool and bolted up the shock. Sounds easy...took about 2.5 hours.
I'm not going to go into detail because I don't think that the R1 Shock will work. Reason being, it is waaaaaaay undersprung. When I first did the bounce on the seat test it was like sitting on a LazyBoy, way too soft. I cranked the preload to max and almost no change. I didn't fiddle with the damping but this thing feels so far off I think I'm going to cut my losses at this point.
I think that this shock needs the linkage to get it to work. The linear rear suspension is simply too much for it.
Now that said you could install a different spring but I'm concerned that the damping mappings will be way off too.
The funny thing is Bill got his Fox shock to work well.
So I'm going to regroup and see what I can think up from here. Ohlins would be great but man they are expsensive.
Now that said...Madman was talking about lowering his ride, this would be perfect for him!
Here's one photo, damn it is pretty...
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I've had a few questions on what needs to be ground on the sub frame mount. Here's a couple of photos. Basically the U shaped cut out needs to be made square. Also included is the additional hardware I bought for the project.
With PEDs new (as of 1/1/09) shock update mod, this may now be a very good option. See his mod over on SBN for details. :thumbup:
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Well the hardware I was waiting for from Yamaha showed up today, sure enough I changed my course of action. Instead of shiming the upper bolt to the frame bracket, I ended up drilling out the mounting bolt hole for the new shock. Did some grinding with an under powered Dremmel Mototool and bolted up the shock. Sounds easy...took about 2.5 hours.
I'm not going to go into detail because I don't think that the R1 Shock will work. Reason being, it is waaaaaaay undersprung. When I first did the bounce on the seat test it was like sitting on a LazyBoy, way too soft. I cranked the preload to max and almost no change. I didn't fiddle with the damping but this thing feels so far off I think I'm going to cut my losses at this point.
I think that this shock needs the linkage to get it to work. The linear rear suspension is simply too much for it.
Now that said you could install a different spring but I'm concerned that the damping mappings will be way off too.
The funny thing is Bill got his Fox shock to work well.
So I'm going to regroup and see what I can think up from here. Ohlins would be great but man they are expsensive.
Now that said...Madman was talking about lowering his ride, this would be perfect for him!
Here's one photo, damn it is pretty...
View attachment 2117
I've had a few questions on what needs to be ground on the sub frame mount. Here's a couple of photos. Basically the U shaped cut out needs to be made square. Also included is the additional hardware I bought for the project.
With PEDs new (as of 1/1/09) shock update mod, this may now be a very good option. See his mod over on SBN for details. :thumbup:
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