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Bump Don't make me go to Ebay..... Kevin

Back up for sale. And don't forget, you'll also get the genuine crush washers too, in their own handy little paper bag. Kevin

Sale Pending. Kevin

I've been hanging on to this since totaling my Blackbird awhile back. I don't know, sort of sentimental I guess. But what ever. The Manual is in good shape - just a few finger prints on the edges. Has all the updates and I'll even throw in the 3 or 4 oil drain plug crush washers I just found. $30 plus shipping. Kevin

I just found this. It's my stock XX shock. I had about 9k or 10k miles on it before I removed it and installed a CBR900 shock. If you want it PM me - $30 plus shipping. Kevin

Mine will do what you said if I don't pull up the lever all the way up during the previous gear change.

Well, great. Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I'll be ordering a Pilot Power for the front. In two weeks time I should have fresh fork oil, new tapered steering head bearings and a Pilot Power Maybe I'll put that washer on my shock mount too.....

Has any one tried a Pilot Power on the front with a Pilot Road on back? If so, how do you like it? If not, what do you think?

Along with the usual stuff like tie-wraps, chain lube, a little duct tape.. On my last trip, I took my 22mm and 27mm sockets for chain adjustment. The chain was fairly new and a couple thousand miles into my trip it did needed a little tightening. I stopped at an auto garage in a small town, bummed a breaker bar, ratchet and torque wrench. Fixed her up, returned the tools with many thanks, and rode on my merry way.

+1 I've had to adjust mine since they were almost falling off and allowing the tail cowl to rub on the tail light. Probably should re-glue them or something.

Here's where I got my springs and vavles http://www.racetech.com/

Uh oh, sorry, I don't know. :oops: They are socket head and a 5 mm allen fits it. But the bolt size? I don't know. I pulled them from my "Lucky Bin." You know, when you need a fastener or something and it's late and you've run out of all your POS Honda push pins, that aren't broken, and you don't have the proper fasteners so you rumage through the "Lucky Bin." I got lucky! They were small and round...and shiney and metric..and they even fit the fairing holes. I put a flat washers and split lock washers on too!

+1 I hate those POS pins. I have replaced the bottom most ones, under the chin, with bolts. The upper ones have maybe one or two times left in them. Time to order some. I thinks Jaws has them in a bag of ten. I went with the straight rate Race Tech front springs, Gold valves and rebound valves. I am very pleased.

I did the 900RR shock swap. I'm reasonably happy with it. It's better than the stock BB shock and it's adjustable. But I did have some trouble finding a higher rate spring. At 300 lbs you will need one. I weigh about 160 lbs with gear and the 900RR's (15kg, IIRC) spring was too soft for even me. When I did my shock, Race Tech no longer carried the stiffer 16 kg spring that was being used by other forum members. They offered a special order 16.1kg/900lb Eibach spring. Once I got it in hand, I saw it was shorter than the stock spring. Race Tech agreed to take the spring back but they said it should still work. It did work, once I put about 5/8th of an inch of shims between the spring and the top perch. I do like the shock, but the cost of the used shock, plus the spring, plus the rebuild, plus the pain in the ass, I recommend going after market. Ohlins, Wilburs, Penske. If you do go for the 900RR shock, investigate the spring options before you commit. I'm thinking you're gonna need a much higher spring rate than 900 lbs. I've heard of 1000lbs and maybe even 1100lbs. Check with Race Tech.

Yes, Tim, thanks for the pics. I'm gonna break out my manual and follow along. I just might do this myself, should Hell ever freeze over again, of course. Thanks very much.