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Someone gave me these shocks in Ohio last year.
I finally got them off the shelf and cleaned them up.
I listed them on eBay to see if i could sell them.
They are pretty neat. They have four dampening positions and are oil filled.
They came off a VN700.
If you could get a air valve on each shock they would be great for the two up rides.
Are air shocks common?
I've saw a lot of air mono-shocks but never duals. Roy

For conversation sake...are they marked with a brand name? Is your auction currently running on the bay? Inquiring minds and all...

Air shocks are not really that common I guess. Harley has them on their large baggers I think. The cool thing is that you can easily adjust damping for heavy loads. I believe some bikes with air shocks even have a litlle compressor installed so you can adjust them with the push of a button.
I've got Marzocchi shocks on my ride. They're just air assisted (air filled bladder) so the only way to adjust damping is with the oil weight and the washer stack on the valve. I'm still finetuning things but they're nice.

My eBay seller name is roy-b-boy-b . Item no. 260019733965.
I'm sure some one will provide a link.
The Suzuki parts i listed made me proud of the aluminum Kawi parts. The suzuki looked like crap from the factory. I thought i would never get them to shine.
I am going to list the Suzuki front Calipers later and those are steel! Gee. Heavy !!! Roy

Oh Yeah, They had a sticker,"1278 KYB".

Post edited by: roy-b-boy-b, at: 2006/08/11 22:10

I am parting out a 82 KZ1100 that had air shocks on it before dont have the shocks but do have the splitter for the air lines one for the air hose and two going to the shocks.Let me know if anybody interested.

Here is a link to the KYB website, but no sign of 1278's:

KYB site

Here is the auction link:

shock auction

They are on my watch list...good luck Roy!

Thanks.I guess KYB went out of the motorcycle shock business. Roy

Yeah, so did Koni as they are automotive only now too, but at least we have IKON, Progressive, Ohlins and others for our scoots.

they look like the ones i have from an 82 spectre without the rubber boot covers on the bottom half

here is the splitter if anybodys interested.

Post edited by: wagonmaster69, at: 2006/08/13 02:11

lets try this again.

Post edited by: wagonmaster69, at: 2006/08/13 02:14

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