Bonneville America Forums Forums Technical Forums Custom Corner Another "lowering block" question

So,I think it's time to cut the rear fender a bit but i'm afraid that with the stock shocks might be too high from the tire.I had once a used pair of 11.5" progressive's but there were too soft and had long travel, so with 2 up the ride was a torture trying not to bottom out.
I was thinking to try the lowering blocks at least before buying new shocks.I searched all the topics but everyone talked about 2 or 3 inches.How about making blocks with 1 inch
drop or even less?Is this possible?Has anyone done that?

Free Spirit sells them, but they must be made out of Platinum for the asking price.

http://www.freespirits.it/en/products-triumph/triumph-classic-risers-block-type2det.html

i'm only seeing risers, but they'd be easy as pie to replicate.

why don't you have a set made then, we have a member in here that is retired and a master machinist that does some work for some in here, send him a pm see if he can help. search under:

mcfcinusa

Thanks guys for your reply.
well, i will try to make one myself from a piece of metal and see if it works for 1"drop.

I have a crazy idea to relocate the top of the shock.

Yesterday i received the blocks from a welder and also told him to make me a plug for the crossover as well.So today i managed to put the blocks on the bike.Some trimming was necessary but other than that everything went well.
Don't know how much drop succeeded....maybe an inch i guess...don't know how to meassure it.
Took it for a test ride and i'm huppy with the results.
little bit stiffer but not something to worry about.
I have to test it with 2 up though to be sure.

yo, varmax, how did the 2up test go, por favor?

edit: and do you have any drawings? with dimensions and stuff?

Stevo it's not as bad as expected to be.It's a little a bit harder specially on a bad road but nothing really annoying.I have no clearance issues either with 2 up .But i think it's a compromise after all.I love the look though so i won't turn back except maybe on a future long trip.As for drawings i don't have any but i can send you a scan copy of the ugly prototypes.But you may need to trim a bit.

I'd appreciate that, thanks.

Go to the free spirits site - they have the technical drawing there.

As a craftsman by myself I'm not into talking about money and stealing ideas but I understand that shippingcosts and the product by itself ist pretty expensive.

So when copying it for yourself, light a candle and thank them for the drawing...


Dan

http://www.freespirits.it/istruzioni/distec/301901.pdf

this one? it hasn't got any dimensions on it.

Do your layout on a piece of stout paper, even sans dimensions, you can see what goes where and why as well as physically put it where it goes and visually see if it will work or not. I have had good results using Brass shim stock, but in a pinch, the flat side of a plastic gallon milk jug (way cheaper and easier to cut) makes a durable and transferable template too. I got in the habit of using shimstock as a Boilermaker on time consuming pipe development layouts as an example, 14 sections, 105 degree elbow using 16" sched. 60 pipe. It was a as needed assignment, so when I was tasked with the second one, a year later, I went to where I stashed the paper cut out patterns and they were unusable from poor storage. So I restarted from scratch, but cut out the layouts in .025 shim and although I don't work there anymore, those layouts may very well be hanging in some US Steel,
tool room today. Sheesh, that was 1974, I'm getting old.