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[qed]

Mrs QED has a lowered sv650 on my picture - they are great bikes for the price.

There is a more modern version and they go for pennies really

[Spank My Car]

How much did she pick hers up for?

[qed]

How much did she pick hers up for?

£2,800 but it was a while ago and it was nearly new and has been seriously lowered. Its perfect for her and she has only hopitalised herself once on it, so much better than normal.

The only thing I was thinking of doing was fitting some subtle bar risers to it as she is a bit stretched over the tank and gets a bit of nork rubbage on the tank that I have to t-cut out every so often

[Spank My Car]

nork rubbage on the tank that I have to t-cut out every so often

 


Might be worth Stiggy looking at the Suzuki SV650 then - Was the lowering kit expensive?

[Handsome Devil]

It's usually not expensive, just different dogbones or knuckles on the rear suspension, and the forks dropped through the yokes a little.  Have a care though, as it can muck up the handling on some machines.

Some manufacturers also offer a modified seat for the more, er, compact rider.

[qed]

Might be worth Stiggy looking at the Suzuki SV650 then - Was the lowering kit expensive?

It was already on the bike - as Turbos  post a lowered seat too.


Dunno about the handling as all jap bikes have cheap Bic spring front suspension that BMW innovated and ditched decades ago.....

[soffit]

It was already on the bike - as Turbos  post a lowered seat too.


Dunno about the handling as all jap bikes have cheap Bic spring front suspension that BMW innovated and ditched decades ago.....

And you can tell the difference? Sounds like pub/MCN talk to me 

[Spank My Car]

Quick question - Are all Motorbike helmet shells the same size? and the amount of padding they insert determines the size (S/M/L etc)

So in theory a visor off a Small helmet would fit an XL ?

[soffit]

No idea... check if more than one visor size for a given helmet?

[qed]

Quick question - Are all Motorbike helmet shells the same size? and the amount of padding they insert determines the size (S/M/L etc)

So in theory a visor off a Small helmet would fit an XL ?

There are generally a few shell sizes but the visors are the same size. If they aren't it'll be made clear

[qed]

And you can tell the difference? Sounds like pub/MCN talk to me 

No fork dive for a start.

When was the last time you rode a bike?

[soffit]

No fork dive for a start.

When was the last time you rode a bike?

About twelve years ago as you ask. But things don't change much.... its still two wheels separated by an idiot .

Bmw had no dive forks before tele's were even invented ...

[qed]

true

[Handsome Devil]

Most forks were anti dive before teles, such as girders, leading link, etc.

Telelever is great, but too much of a compromise in other areas for many (unsprung mass, weight, sticktion, issues with mass centralisation on the bike as a whole, issues with packaging/wheelbase, difficult to sepeate damping and springing behavior, etc), though BMW have taken the system and made it work better than most.  Interestingly, BMW have gone to conventional inverted or RWU forks for many of their their modern gen machines, and despite many clever attempts with hub centre, parellelogram, and other trick front ends, virtually all competition machines still run forks.

I think forks, as flawed as they are, have benefitted from many decades of linear development, and we reap those benefits today, but they must surely be at a developmental dead end and one day a major manufacturer, perhaps BMW again, will come up with a new generation of front end and forks will be confined to the bin of history.  Though we ain't there just yet.

[qed]

Now that is MCN

Nope the telelever is excellent.  For a start you can brake while lent over without the bike standing up.