Ohlins shocks for 2017

[Paris_imp]

I am very interested to see how they look and feel on your bike, keep us posted .

I put Honda rear carrier on, and noticed that there might not be enough room for the NTR3 reservoir. The carrier is anchored by the forward bolt on the grab bar, which is extended outward about 2"by the carrier. I talked to Fastbike, did a bit of PhotoShop magic, and figured out that there is just 3/8" clearance for the top of the reservoir and the boss for the carrier. That's pretty close and I hope I'm not wrong.

Using PhotoShop to test fitment is a handy thing. You can take a picture of the bike, or find an image off the internet, and scale it to actual size by taking a few measurements on the real bike for reference. You copy that image to a layer, and create a second layer with an image of the part you've scaled in the same way. Then you put the part layer on top of the first layer. You adjust the opacity of the part layer so that you can see through it to the image of the bike. Then you rotate and move the part layer into position to see if it fits.

In this case, I went a step further and mapped the top of the shock bolt and the carrier boss on the background layer, using the bike image for reference. Then I lined up the layer with the NTR3 image and oriented it so that it matched the angle of the shock on the bike image. At that point, you can discard or drop out the layer with the bike image. Finally, I printed it out, and held the paper up to the bike to see if everything lined up, which it did.

What I came up with is below: