| Author | Message | ||
     Mbc |
I recently made repairs to my '97 M2 Cyclone and started riding again.One of the 1st things i noticed was the rough ride,more so on the freeway(SoCal) than around town and through the twisties.Did the research to see which recall shock I had and got proper pre-load,compression and rebound settings and proceedures.After many set-up combinations,I determined the shock to be blown,non-responsive.It rode like an old p/u truck on the freeway,would just beat the crap out of you.Not able to afford a new rear shock at this time,I removed it and replaced with dual rear shocks from another bike.I fabricated shock mounts for the swingarm and chassi,both bolt-on for temp. use until I can rebuild or replace old rear shock.Other than the obvious failure of my temp. shock mounts,have I overlooked something that would make the bike unsafe to ride by removing the OE/recall shock? | ||
| Puddlepirate |
Any pics of the mount? | ||
| Mbc |
I took a cpl pics tonite,I'll try to post later. I'm having trouble uploading pics,error says upload exceeds max. allowable size.Need help (Message edited by MBC on September 05, 2008) | ||
| Limitedx1 |
ummmmm....the motor/swingarm on a tuber are independant of the frame or subframe. i would kinda hesitant to connect the two. i could think of several reasons why not to just off the top of my head without getting into vibration and twist theory | ||
| Mbc |
Duel shocks have been removed and OE/recall was reinstalled.Although the duel shock set-up seemed to work OK,I didn't want to wear-out the WP shocks for the XR.Thanks,Bruce |
