Ohlins shocks

[Peter Myles]

Having bought a pair of shiny new Ohlins shocks from SPC last Saturday, thet went on real easy on Sunday.
As suggested in fitting instructions, I left the settings as "out of the box".
Problem: the bike is now 2 - 3 inches taller and , as I'm only 5' 7", I need those inches back.

Ideas ?

 

[Animal]

I need those inches back.

The only way to lower the bike is to drop the Preload. Many sportsbars have tiebars or height adjustable mountings, the GS (AFAIK) doesn't.


As this will afect the way the bike will handle quite substantially, I'd suggest you only drop it a fraction (as you're 5ft7 you're prolly light anyway) and see how she feels.




A bit late now, but Ohlins do height-adjustable shocks, not sure if they're available for the GS though...

 

[Madmountainman]

Screw wooden blocks on the bottom of your biking boots!!!!!!!!!! Chortle, chortle, chortle!!!!

 

[Steve]

Might be worth a visit or phone-call to Harris Performance at Hertford, who are the Ohlins gurus in the UK. I believe they can rebuild them to your needs, and not too costly.

www.harris-performance.com

 

[Hadrian]

I use Ohlins shocks on my GS and have found them OK but not what everyone raves on about. Since Yamaha bought them out they are good but not like what they used to be but on the plus side they are rebuildable which is an advantage.

Ask Harris to put some nylon spacer blocks in the shock to reduce the travel, this will lower the ride height (but have both shocks done), it will probably need a 12mm spacer to achive what you require and should cost no more than 50 quid a shock for a rebuid and gas.