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I bought a lowered bike and bringing it back to stock, so I'm selling the Wilbers suspension rear shock (-40 lowering version) it gives the seat a significant drop. It has rebound adjustment unlike the OEM.

Amazing write up and pictures, probably the best I've seen on a forum. About to do this. My valves are ungodly loud and ticky.

Not a wimp... riding with earplugs is amazing. I find it much more relaxing. I just use the foam ones you spin in your fingers to compress first.

I am hoping you are right that it gives some info. I mentioned spring rate because I am going to have someone help me measure what the sag is with my weight, and see if the current spring is appropriate. I don't know the approx weight or anything at all of the previous owner, so having an...

I found a model number on the spring and emailed Wilbers trying to get more info on the spring rate, if its a lowering spring even... hoping for something :) Number is "59-59/120-130"

It does not look shortened, I was thinking it would be a replacement, you're right its easy to see a weld.. It's possible maybe the back isn't lowered as much as I think. It does look odd compared to photos but I don't have much to go on for in person comparison. I am also just hoping it is...

I looked into that, it replaces the bottom mount point on the shock that mounts to the subframe. I found some info that the stock shock should be 300mm from each hole, so if you wanted to make sure you could measure it. But I think you'd need to take it off for that.

Makes sense :) Darn, more money spent. I wonder if I could sell this one or something.

This is the Ebay kit yes? I don't love the half fairing thing. How is the actual light output though? I find these cheap ebay kits have awful actual output.

Thanks. Been reading all night trying to understand it all more. I don't really know where to go from here. Now I know the shock is aftermarket, but I have no idea why it looks and feels so low in the rear. Or what I can do about it.

Well as you can tell I know nothing about suspension adjustment what so ever. I moved the nut up the threads towards the seat, thinking this lengthens the spring and therefore gives me a higher lift on the seat. I moved it up quite a bit with no change at all to the height!

The shock is a "Wilbers" brand. Found a thread on here talking about it, it has preload and rebound adjustment. Unsure whether this shock makes the bike lower, I have not found any mention of that though. And this is a shortened kickstand I assume? Also here is a picture of how the bike is...

Got it, thanks. So if I want the seat higher (make the shock longer/less compressed) I turn the ring out, I will also make the suspension softer at the same time. It feels very very hard right now on small bumps, I guess that is because its cranked down to make the bike sit low?

Are your fork tube sticking out of the top too? If so how much? I think that it would be easy to spot an actual drop link added onto the shock, but if someone replaced the actual top mount that is attached to the shock (like the Amazon one) it would be a lot harder to notice. The whole top...

Thanks :) Glad I found this active forum. In reference to the shock not being able to be dropped besides with a spring, what about that doohicky in the link I posted above from Amazon? I'm just not sure what the OEM setup would look like, so I'm trying to figure out what aftermarket stuff to...

Here are a couple pictures of what the bike looks like. Silly question but cranking the preload nut down will cause the bike to be lower, yes? And the forks speak for themselves.

Sounds good will do! I measured how much of the forks are sticking out past the triple clamp, and its almost 2"!!! I could just put them back to normal but then the bike will be very mismatched, so I'm waiting until I figure out how to fix the back so I can do it at the same time.

Thanks for the in depth answer! I saw things like https://www.amazon.ca/Soupys-Yamaha-FZ6-Lowering-Link/dp/B00INCJ3QO so I suspected mine might have something similar to make the seat sit lower. Just going to tear into it a bit today to see if I can get a look at the top of the shock somehow...

I am quite tall and the bike was lowered. What is the technique used to lower the rear suspension? I want to remove whatever it is. Am I likely to need an original part, or is the lowering link setup just an add-on that can be removed and put back to stock without buying some original part that...