I agree, when I was a hooligan I had a Bandit 1200, the usual thing to do was to buy a jack up kit for the rear shock.
(the kit was a set of new linkages that where 5mm shorter). These jacked the back end up by about 24mm, I recon jacking up the rear would be the same as lowering the front.
The effect was very noticeable, the handle bars almosted wanted to fold under the bike on a bend.
Result. 1 jack up kit on e-bay.
