Rear shock linkage

[pete-blen]

Hi..
I 'm looking for a new aftermarket rear suspension
linkage for a XR250 to lower the rear...
Dose anyone know if such a critter exsists ?
and where to get it from....

Pete

[Robert Taylor]

Hi..
I 'm looking for a new aftermarket rear suspension
linkage for a XR250 to lower the rear...
Dose anyone know if such a critter exsists ?
and where to get it from....

Pete

Unlikely and in any event messing with the links can be fraught with danger. The suspension action on many a bike has been really messed up with the fitting of ''convenient, quick and easy'' imported lowering links. Many of the companies making these things just want to keep their CNC equipment running and care little about the negative by-products. Given the state of the worlds economy any vestige of ethics that many of these companies had will be firmly consigned to the expedient of survival in spite of doing something that is fundamentally wrong.
The only way to lower a bike PROPERLY is to have the suspension proffessionally shortened.

[pete-blen]

Thanks...
I give it a go...

Might have to stand in front of a mill for a while..

Pete

[pete-blen]

Mite not have to make a linkage...
only had it 2 days...
looks as if the ride hight can be lowered about 50mm
the forks have a shoulder. Top of the fork is smaller and
can be slid though the top triple clamp to the shoulder 50mm...

The rear shock has a second hole in the shocks bottom fork
to move it down on the linkage 12mm.. that would give around
50mm lower at the rear wheel...

Has anyone done this on a XR250 ?
this is a 4 valve / twin overhead cam / air cooled model...
And it has - " Double High sus" writen on it...

Pete

[Robert Taylor]

Mite not have to make a linkage...
only had it 2 days...
looks as if the ride hight can be lowered about 50mm
the forks have a shoulder. Top of the fork is smaller and
can be slid though the top triple clamp to the shoulder 50mm...

The rear shock has a second hole in the shocks bottom fork
to move it down on the linkage 12mm.. that would give around
50mm lower at the rear wheel...

Has anyone done this on a XR250 ?
this is a 4 valve / twin overhead cam / air cooled model...
And it has - " Double High sus" writen on it...

Pete

Excellent, thats a whole load better than the Heath Robinson method of making links and (often ) murdering the motion ratio that is applied to the shock. Another negative implication of lowering links is it changes the ''full compressed'' wheel position, often there is tyre to mudguard contact. ( Not good )

[rok-the-boat]

Mite not have to make a linkage...
only had it 2 days...
looks as if the ride hight can be lowered about 50mm
the forks have a shoulder. Top of the fork is smaller and
can be slid though the top triple clamp to the shoulder 50mm...

The rear shock has a second hole in the shocks bottom fork
to move it down on the linkage 12mm.. that would give around
50mm lower at the rear wheel...

Has anyone done this on a XR250 ?
this is a 4 valve / twin overhead cam / air cooled model...
And it has - " Double High sus" writen on it...

Pete

Give it a try, but jump up and down on it to make sure you have some clearance between the tyre and the mudguard. Put some bluetack on the tyre and see if it gets squished.