Re: [ST] Re: RaceTech setup

[Mike Montville <mjmontville@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Paul, for the heads-up.  I'm just about to have my RaceTech
components installed, and this is the first mention I've seen.

Did you find that the different front attitude changed the handling, or
that ground clearance suffered significantly?

I'm also curious if you went with RT's recommended 15 wt fluid.

Mike

- --- phsammut@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Subject: RE: [ST] Problems with stock lights?
> 
> I don't know if anyone else has noticed but, when you convert stock
> springs
> to theRaceTech springs/emulators set-up, the bike's "nose" (and hence
> lights) sits lower. (I assembled and disassembled mine four separate
> times
> to check measurements and discussed it with RaceTech who agreed with me.
>  I
> measured sag with stock set-up and with RT and there is about a 24mm
> difference for someone of my weight of 170#.)  This has the effect of
> making the low-beam lights barely visible to others and throws a much
> shorter beam-spread than when stock.  I first noticed this with my
> friend's
> Sprint ST and figured out that the same went for my bike.  Re-setting is
> definitely in order.
> 
> By the way, I have the Motolights also and they are fantastic.  Several
> friends have been converted.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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