Man what a diffrence. I have heard a lot about how bad this is. I have ridden lowered bikes before, and I partially agree with some of the bad. On my bike bike, a '08 TE-610, it feels great. I took it out last night for a good ol thrashing to see how the work turned out. While I did loose some ground clearance, I can now touch the ground where I could not before, the bike is more solid in the trail hack (tree roots, rocks, etc.) and the rear end is not so loosey goosey. And best of all, the front end does not wash out anymore While this is not a sponsored deal, I am 100% happy with the results so I felt like I should post it up. Here is what was done. Don't ask me how he did it, because I do not know, but the stock rear linkage is still there and the forks are only 3 mm up the in the upper clamp. - Lowered the front 1 1/2" - Revalved the front - Did something with the rebound on the front - Lowered the rear about 1 1/4" or so - Adjusted the sag and leveled the bike I realize that there are suspension sponsors here, but I went to Cliff because he has done all of my bikes except for one. That bike went to a guy that had a big head and was his way or no way. So if you are looking for a local guy, he is in Shingle Springs, Ca. His shop is RPS or Racers Pit Stop. I can say that Cliff has the Marsochi/Sachs thing down. I know I am going to get beat for this, but he is a Beta dealer and I do belive that he has done some of thier factory bikes. Needless to say, I still do not have the external compression adjusters on the forks and its dialed in right where I like it. O I forgot, the high speed twitchyness is gone as well. Man, did I try everything to get rid of that. All of this was done with the stock springs. Mind you, I am what you would call big boned. The weight of me geared up and the bike topped off on the scale was 573 pounds I dont know my ablities. I smoked a B rider and got smoked by a C rider. So figure that one out Next on the list is a set of AC10's and a 14 tooth countershaft sprocket and ditch the 15x 43 single track gearing
It is fine and dandy to talk about other shops besides the one that is sponsoring Cafe Husky (Drew Smith / WER suspension)... But I'm not sure people in the future will think to look for general recommendations for suspension shops in the Cafe Diner, so I'll move it over to the common topics area.
