I’m not sure adding a spacer to limit the shocks piston stroke would be a good idea. I measured the length of the Progressive brand shocks I remove and the ZRX shocks. The difference was 1.125”. If I’m thinking about this correctly, a spacer that size would effectively be preloading the spring and reducing the effective range of shock travel. What I’m planning will require no chopping of the swing arm. The lower mounting point will be moved downward about an inch and outward about an 1/8”. Which will be a good thing because right now the spring is about a ¼” from the chain.

If you are going to disassemble the shocks to do the Race Tech mods then you have a perfect opportunity to effectively shorten them to your desired length (to adjust your ride height without chopping up your swingarm). Just increase the thickness of whatever stops the piston from extending. It a common mod that is done all the time.

I know what to do to get everything dialed in. Just need to save up money and call RaceTech. Making the mods to the swingarm will cost next to nothing. All labor and I give myself a huge price break on labor charges.

Maybe check into a lower spring rate, if you have it set as soft as possible, then drop down in rate. It should give the bike a bit more sag when you first sit down, helping with the height issue.

Unrelated, but I really like the paint scheme on your bike! Ed

Got some. They did raise up the rear of the bike more then I'd like. I think the spring might be a bit to stiff for my 157LBS. Got the pre-load set to min. I still need to play around with the dampen settings. I'll eventualy get around to a rebuild and RaceTech treatment. Must work out a way to mod shock to swing arm mounting point to get OEM ride hight back.

camaroguy wrote:

I hope mine comes out that nice.liking those rear shocks.

ZRX11 ´99 swing, Öhlins shocks and GSXR1000 ´98 USD front:)

The shock body is pretty much the same as the mcycle shock, so you could easily swap the spring and valving to be identical and still spend considerably less than you would if you bought the motorcycle model. It's possible to swap out the spring and valving, but unnecessary, they actually work quite well. I had ZRX shocks on this same bike prior to getting the Ohlins, the ZRX shocks were a bit softer riding. The ZRX shocks , when fitted on the 550 are just big looking, they are little out of scale with the 550. Both are light years better than the stock shocks, and both work well for riding solo or two-up.

I have ZRX shocks, and they seem a tad stiff. even at the lowest setting. the bikes weigh about the same though. you can also go to the zrx forum and see if anyone wants to sell a set.
over the winter i plan on rebuilding them and then we'll see how they are.

hardr0ck68 wrote:

yeah I just realized that hagon doesn't have a piggyback model. here check out YSS (among other thing they make the ZRX shocks)

www.yssusa.com/series-g.html

stock ZRX shocks are KYB