I read this old topic where a foccer found out that his bike only had 100mm of travel:
http://fazerowners.yuku.com/topic/30816#.UJB0V65lbCMWhat do you think about it? How close have you manage to push a zip tie to the triple clamp? Since my bike has fork gaitors I cannot put a zip tie to measure the fork travel accurately to set the preload. I even thought that maybe the gaitors reduced some travel, but if that info is correct it would not be the case.
By the way I think that the claimed installed spring length (7mm shorter than free) does not make sense counting the claimed spacer length (200 mm 1998/183mm 2002).It would make the spring 14mm shorter once installed according to my measures. I could be wrong about it because my forks have a mix of 1998, 2002 and custom parts, but I have all the 1998 stock parts except the spacers, so I am pretty sure.
Has anybody measured where the spacers are from the top of the forks once the caps have been removed?
Are the top out springs messing around with all these measurements?
Sorry for my English, still learning...
