Lowering kit

[lew600fazer]

Thinking of fitting a 25mm lowering kit. Have hit the search section and see folk are also saying drop the forks by 10mm.
Anymore advice. I have just fitted lower front foot rests because of dodgy knees, Fitting them has made life more comfortable but because I find it difficult to fully straighten my knees now I a bit nervous now as I can only manage tip toes now. I am not that worried about ground clearance as my peg grounding days are behind me.
Looking at what is involved does not look that hard a job to carry out.
Any advice appreciated
Lew

[celticdog]

It's all good stuff fella  , I hope it works out for you, unfortunately I can't offer any practical advice.
In my old age I've a strange hankering to buy a ZRX 1200, let's hope it passes . . .

[PieEater]

Shorter  / longer dogbones will affect suspension geometry and will therefore impact on handling and shock performance. When I fitted a jack-up kit to my Gen1 my rear shock got noticeably firmer and as there was more weight over the front of the bike the steering got noticeably quicker and more responsive.  I imagine that a lowering kit would have the opposite effect and make your rear shock softer and the steering slower. Though given your circumstances these could be comprises you are willing to accept.

[His Dudeness]

You might be able to get a lower, narrower seat made up

[lew600fazer]

True about the seat. When I sat on the MT-07 it was one of the things I liked about the bike was the narrow seat, may try and see if I can get someone out here could do the seat.
Thanks folks for the feed back.
Just had another think about this if I went for the seat option I am actually undoing lowering my pegs as I would have to flex my knees more. Will have to be the lowering kit.

[PieEater]

To be honest you would probably be able to get round most of the negative effects of the lowering kit by adjusting the shocks pre-load and / or compression damping and dropping the forks.

[lew600fazer]

PieEater, to be honest I am only prolonging the inevitable. The bike is just to heavy for me in my current state of health. I thought I had sold it earlier in the week but as usual guy that wanted it was just a time waster.
I even had a MT-07 sourced 2014 bike €4850.00 7k kms but that has since been sold.
I relly do need to be able to flat foot the bike now.

[bri h]

I dropped mine by 30mil and the forks by 15 mil. The bike handles well enough for me and the confidence I get from reaching the ground makes a world of difference.

[Oldgit]

do the do a highering kit.  :pc

[lew600fazer]

do the do a highering kit.  :pc

Ah!! a penny farthing 

[Nightfury]

To keep the handling the same, whatever you drop the back by drop the front the same. 10mm at the front is not enough, it will handle like an 80's cruiser and run wide on the exit of corners.
I did this when I fitted a 25mm lowering kit. All of my experience was telling me to lower the front by the same amount, but I too had read this 10mm advice thing so thought there might be something in it. WRONG!!


Saddle wise, have a look to see if there are any coach builders/car upholsterers in your area, then find out if they have an apprentice that might be able to do a small job for some beer money. Got to be cheaper than saddle specialist! 

[Grayo]

I fitted a 30mm lowering kit to mine and it was awful. Struggled to get the geometry right and the handling was just terrible. It also makes it much harder to get on the centre stand. I went for the seat lowering option in the end and now I'm much happier.

[lew600fazer]

Thanks for your replies, but I think some may not have read my original post. I have lowered the front foot rests because I am having pain in my knees. I struggle to hold the bike upright as I am on tip toes almost so looking at dropping it 25mm. Dropping the seat will put me back to more stress on my knees. I have the bike up for sale.

[Rob R]

If you lower the ride height don't forget that you may have to shorten the prop stand to suit.