rear shock 89 tengai

[clint lee jin yew]

i'm thinking of 10" X 2.25" 500pound hypercoil spring . am i on the right track here? i was advised for the spring rate but not about the size. can anyone out there help? thanks clint

[Moose]

That falls along with what I was asking. I could buy just a spring for my rear shock for around a hundred bucks and get a 500/560 spring. I'm pretty sure that just replaces your standard spring and gives you the 5 pre-load settings, they're just stiffer for us big guys. Moose clint lee jin yew wrote: i'm thinking of 10" X 2.25" 500pound hypercoil spring . am i on the right track here? i was advised for the spring rate but not about the size. can anyone out there help? thanks clint --------------------------------- It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[clint lee jin yew]

i'm asking because i've read about guys who use the 500 pound spring but the spring length is 9" instead of 10. i'm wondering why before i order my spring

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Moose wrote: > > That falls along with what I was asking. I could buy just a spring for my rear shock for around a hundred bucks and get a 500/560 spring. I'm pretty sure that just replaces your standard spring and gives you the 5 pre-load settings, they're just stiffer for us big guys. > > Moose > > clint lee jin yew wrote: > i'm thinking of 10" X 2.25" 500pound hypercoil spring . > am i on the right track here? > i was advised for the spring rate but not about the size. > can anyone out there help? > thanks > > clint > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > It's here! Your new message! > Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >

[Moose]

The 9 inch will drop the height of the bike 1 inch for the inseam challenged. Moose clint lee jin yew wrote: i'm asking because i've read about guys who use the 500 pound spring but the spring length is 9" instead of 10. i'm wondering why before i order my spring

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Moose wrote: > > That falls along with what I was asking. I could buy just a spring for my rear shock for around a hundred bucks and get a 500/560 spring. I'm pretty sure that just replaces your standard spring and gives you the 5 pre-load settings, they're just stiffer for us big guys. > > Moose > > clint lee jin yew wrote: > i'm thinking of 10" X 2.25" 500pound hypercoil spring . > am i on the right track here? > i was advised for the spring rate but not about the size. > can anyone out there help? > thanks > > clint > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > It's here! Your new message! > Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > --------------------------------- Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Jud Jones]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "clint lee jin yew" wrote:

> > i'm thinking of 10" X 2.25" 500pound hypercoil spring . > am i on the right track here? > i was advised for the spring rate but not about the size. > can anyone out there help? > thanks > > clint >

Go with the 9". That will allow you to install it with only about a quarter inch of preload at the lowest setting. One reason the stock shock is such an abomination is that the 10" 288lb spring is under more than an inch of preload.

[Jud Jones]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Moose wrote:

> > That falls along with what I was asking. I could buy just a spring for my rear shock for

around a hundred bucks and get a 500/560 spring. I'm pretty sure that just replaces your standard spring and gives you the 5 pre-load settings, they're just stiffer for us big guys.

>

That's what I run right now, and it's not bad, not as nice as a reworked shock with a Gold Valve, but the stocker has enough rebound adjustment to control that spring pretty well, IMO.

[Jud Jones]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Moose wrote:

> > > The 9 inch will drop the height of the bike 1 inch for the inseam challenged. >

It will not. It will just be under less preload than the stock spring.

[Thor Lancelot Simon]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:16:26AM -0700, Moose wrote:

> > The 9 inch will drop the height of the bike 1 inch for the inseam challenged.

That is false. The stock spring is very weak but has additional preload applied over a spring of the length that would be normally used on a shock the length of the KLR's. Nobody really knows why Kawasaki does this but one possibility is that 10" springs are more common than 9" ones and thus somewhat cheaper (at least they were last time I looked). A 9" spring of the correct rate for the rider's weight and riding style will work best. There is no point to using a progressive spring since the geometry of the swingarm *already* makes the spring compression progressive with regard to the wheel movement. The progressive spring will just cost extra money and may not even work as well. But, again, a 9" spring will *not* lower the bike. It is the right length spring for the KLR's shock.

[Moose]

On Arrowhead, it says it lowers the rear suspension one inch. Or is that just for the full replacement setup as opposed to replacing the spring? Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:16:26AM -0700, Moose wrote:

> > The 9 inch will drop the height of the bike 1 inch for the inseam challenged.

That is false. The stock spring is very weak but has additional preload applied over a spring of the length that would be normally used on a shock the length of the KLR's. Nobody really knows why Kawasaki does this but one possibility is that 10" springs are more common than 9" ones and thus somewhat cheaper (at least they were last time I looked). A 9" spring of the correct rate for the rider's weight and riding style will work best. There is no point to using a progressive spring since the geometry of the swingarm *already* makes the spring compression progressive with regard to the wheel movement. The progressive spring will just cost extra money and may not even work as well. But, again, a 9" spring will *not* lower the bike. It is the right length spring for the KLR's shock. --------------------------------- Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Jud Jones]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Moose wrote:

> > On Arrowhead, it says it lowers the rear suspension one inch. Or is that just for the full

replacement setup as opposed to replacing the spring?

>

I have no idea, as I have never read that on the Arrowhead site. But since even a 9" spring is under a little preload, that necessarily means that on an unladen bike it is at full extension, a fixed distance. A shorter shock (measured eye to eye at full extension) will lower the bike, as will a set of longer dogbone links.