On My Toes!

Love the viffer, but hate how I'm on tippy toes at a stop. Yeah I'm short, but I can still wrassell!! Is there any way I can lower the bike without vastly affecting it? Just so I'm flat on the ground. My sargent seat actually put me higher in the saddle...

There was a thread on here about rotating the rear shock linkage triangles and it lowers the bike about 3/4 of an inch.

Than you can raise the forks in the triples to level out the bike fore/aft.


The thread seems to be gone, but somebody will chime in soon with pics I'm sure. fing02.gif



IIRC, the arrows on both triangles that are labeled FR --> (meaning the FRONT of the bike)

get turned around so that the arrows now point upward and slightly rearwards.

I know Thurn Motorsports makes a lowing kit for the vfr, might want to check them out. If I remember right it lowers the bike about 1.5".

Here is a pic of my rotated rear shock mount. It's hard to see the arrow pointing up at the rear, but it is just above the letters. That is the "lowered" or non-stock position shown. Only 3 bolts to loosen (they were incredibly tight. I don't think it took 10 minutes to do the whole thing.

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You can also get a Sargeant seat which will lower it another 1/2" to 3/4".

Edit:

Hey, I actually added some useful information for once!! goofy.gif

I bought my VFR used with the free "rotating link" mod...it makes a big difference, so try that first. I actually raised mine back up to stock because it felt a little too short.

Many of us ride very tall dual sports, we can't touch the ground with both feet on those and we stop all the time. The rule for off road'n is true for street ride'n, "One flat foot on the ground is more solid that two sets of tippie toes". Just slide your butt off to the left and drop that foot down flat.

here's a small portion of a previous thread on the triangle topic. saved it as i considered doing the mod at one time.

click this