i have a big question for you i need more ground clearance i was looking at buying this front end and would like your opinion before i plop down a grand will this give me what i'm looking for and it asks weather i want it it plus 2 ,4,6 and i don't quite understand are they refering to degrees of rake on the tree or lenght of the tubes the front end is on bulldogs site<br><br>Post edited by: junglebear11, at: 2007/01/10 08:06

lets see if this works i really hate trying to post pics on here this is frustrating you think you have it and then you don't

Post edited by: junglebear11, at: 2007/01/10 08:15<br><br>Post edited by: junglebear11, at: 2007/01/10 08:18

one more time

I shure would hate to live or die by getting a pic on here

When they talk about &quot;over&quot; it usually means over stock length,and it would
be the tubes that are longer.Rake is something differant.Some triple trees
Do add rake,which on a stock bike you would have to lengthen the tubes
to come back to stock ride height.Putting the tire father out front.
Hope I didn`t confuse you too much Say you just added longer tubes to
your front end it would raise the height and clearance.

Vegasdave touched on the problems with changing the bikes geometry.

The stock R* is setup with so that the rider is 'comfortable', which means it's not too 'quick', stable but not a bear to turn in parking lots, etc.

Any raising, lowering, extending, etc., changes these characteristics and if you don't know what you are doing you may end up with an unacceptable ride.

Check out this link to help you understand ..... http://www.rbracing-rsr.com/advchoppercalc.html or
http://perseperformance.com/

But you should be aware that trail is not the only thing that affects your ride. For example, if you add longer front forks (+2) to the front the rake does not change and so the trail stays the same but ..... if you ride a bike with 6+ over forks you'll have a differet 'feeling' that the stock bike as the centre of gravity has been affected.

A 4+ on my bike gave be about 1.5&quot; at the front floorboard bolt but I have a 6 degree triples. On the stock triple it would probably be around 2&quot; You can figure out how much the front end would raise by calculating it out.

Whose front end it that?

Doc

Vegas Dave and Doc you'll have to excuse my ignorance but that stuff on that web site is all greek to me i was a auto mech for 28 years built race cars and everything but when it comes to bikes i'm a complete idiote so i need explanation in dummy terms all i want is to stop dragging the frame when i go over a speed bump and it is worse if the wife is on board so all i'm looking for is a quick fix also the wife is wanting to dress the bike out will the bags and scoot boot from a venture fit on the roadie need more cargo space

Have you tried adjusting the spring? Or maybe going to a stronger spring would help.

In that case, go with what Muskie suggested.

For you (I think you said you were 300 lb ) I'd recommend the 1000 lb spring. You can also get the progressive spring (which is very nice) if you have more cash.

Try here: http://www.nopork.com/rshop_bybike.asp?mdel=Yamaha+Roadstar&amp;grp=Frame+%26+Body&amp;subcat=Suspension

Doc