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... rear shock length, with the rear wheel off the floor.

I'm doing a friend a favour. He's writing a piece in a magazine, Practical Sportsbike, in the uk, about geometry and suspension.

I've changed the swing arm on my bike and it has effected the geometry a bit. I've given him all the measurements and a few pics, for the original Swing arm and the Over one, but I can't measure the distance between the top and bottom rear shock mount, with the std. shock and swing arm.

Can anyone pop there bike on the centre stand and put a tape measure across it?

I'll take pics of the article and put it up on here, if my scrappy notes make it to press... and even if not ;-)

Thanks
Kev

14 inches, center of bolt to center of bolt.

(07-03-2018, 07:05 AM)SportsterDoc_imp Wrote: [ -> ]14 inches, center of bolt to center of bolt.

Your a good egg, many thanks. Now I can go to bed.... ;-)

(07-03-2018, 06:06 AM)beardyweirdy@me.com_imp Wrote: [ -> ]... rear shock length, with the rear wheel off the floor.

I'm doing a friend a favour. He's writing a piece in a magazine, Practical Sportsbike, in the uk, about geometry and suspension.

I've changed the swing arm on my bike and it has effected the geometry a bit. I've given him all the measurements and a few pics, for the original Swing arm and the Over one, but I can't measure the distance between the top and bottom rear shock mount, with the std. shock and swing arm.

Can anyone pop there bike on the centre stand and put a tape measure across it?

I'll take pics of the article and put it up on here, if my scrappy notes make it to press... and even if not ;-)

Thanks
Kev

Just to clarify, you want the bolt to bolt measurement from frame to swingarm- not the free length of the shock itself?

Yep, Just that.