How do i lower my ktm

Suspension Lowering is one of the most important things you want to pay attention to. Having your bike sprung properly will ensure the geometry, or attitude of the bike front and rear, has the proper pressure applied to both wheels. This affects acceleration, braking, handling, cornering, and overall stability of your bike. Not only in the name of safety, but performance as well. Some of the more dangerous things we see is where the forks are raised far up into the triple clamps.

The reason why this is not a good idea to do is it completely changes the geometry of the front end. The trail is greatly affected, not a good thing. Good question! What happens is the tension is backed off the spring so much so that there is nothing that is holding the spring into place. Do as little as you can get away with though. You'll need to cut down the side stand as well. Re: Lowering the ride height Post by abc » Fri Feb 26, pm If there are bushes at top and bottom of rear shock i haven't had it out so i don't know then you could make new ones and eccentrically bore the holes.

If you can do this top and bottom even an offset of 5mm in the bushes might mean up to 25mm at rear wheel. A cheap option and easy to check out. Proceed with caution though because you can easily feck up the bikes handling. I can touch tip-toe, but would really prefer it a bit lower. Obviously, the KTM doesn't have suspension links that can easily be lowered. Any thoughts on lowering this beautiful machine? It can be done quite easily by a good suspension shop.

My wife has her bike lowered by about 2 inches. Precision concepts did hers but you don't have to use them. I had him revalve my and it's good! If you want to make a one day appointment, Bob Bell at Precision Concepts in Riverside can do the work in as little as three hours. I made an appointment a year ago, arrived at 10 in the morning to drop off my shock and forks for revalving.

Then I visited Bass pro Shop and Chaparral and got a call on the cell phone at about to swing by and pick up my stuff. Great work and stellar customer service. My Husky was the same way. I pulled the forks and shock and had them resprung, revalved and internally shimmed so the bike would be an inch shorter.

It handles like a dream. You can also shave the foam on the seat to gain another inch or more, there are some good tutorials on this.