Well Steve, I'm thinkin' even if ya'd crank that puppy up as stiff as ya can you MAY not bottom out near as much, but remember that thing I said about "scrapin' the hard parts down there in turns"? Well, I'll betcha it'd still do that an awful lot.
As you may noticed by now, I'm not big on lowerin' these very good handlin' machines just to "make 'em look cooler". Nope, unless the reason for lowerin' 'em is because the owner is rather short in the inseam department, I think all you've done is compromise the overall handling performance of 'em...and especially when you're ridin' "two-up" and when the weight is now balanced even more on the rear of the machine.
I'm about 190lb, and my wife(don't tell her I'm reportin' this here, okay?!
) is about 145lb...not a whole lot of weight I'd say compaired to the general demographics around here, wouldn't ya agree? And, I'm runnin' a set of stock length (12.5") Progessive 412s. When we're both on the bike and in the Twisties(and I always dial it down a bit, speed-wise, whenever she's on the back), I still occasionally scrape stuff down there even when I've set the preload stiffer before we venture out.
(...and so, there is no doubt in my mind that starting out an inch even lower would result in even more of that sorta thing happenin')
