![]() ![]() Takes very little engineering to get them to work properly, you just need to be able to use a tape. The more you angle a spring away from 90*, the more pressure is put on the spring, per the same amount of downforce, decreasing it's load capacity & making it feel softer. I'm not tryin' to be a dick, but you're looking at this backwardsĪ spring will carry the most weight & feel the stiffest 90* the only thing i can figure is that during the shock relocation, the bike also maybe got torn apart some, decreasing the weight, although i'm not sure that would make all that much difference. So the soft shock I started out with is now stiff as it gets, which is fine with me, I just care how it looks and that I won't hit a bump and have them explode and put the tire up my ass at 70mph.i don't know why the spring feels stiffer at an angle, it should feel softer. I did some more research and what Ember said was exactly true, and it seems up to a 45 degree angle is the steepest listed (and should be right about where I am), and at that steep of an angle it increases the stiffness of the shock by 2x. actually feels almost rigid which is what got me worrying, but I'm not sure without a front end I'm actually going to get the proper feel anyway. I sat on it without the front end on (I have the forks torn apart to lower them), and the shocks definitely aren't as springy as they felt at the original angle. I like where it will sit now (about 4" of clearance), but I'm worried the shock angle may be too steep for it to work and/or cause issues? Anyone have any experience with doing a bike this way or know about suspension geometry and can give me a heads up as to what the max angle a shock can be placed at and still function properly? Because of the XS400 frame I didn't really want to monkey around with trying to make a custom hardtail unless I had to, so I decided to chop then shorten the rear section to keep the shocks but move the mount a good 6" forward, increasing the angle and dropping the bike. ![]() So I'm finally starting on the 81 XS400 that I picked up for $300 and have had sitting torn apart in my garage while I finished my GS450. ![]()
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