Yea if you lower the rear end the steering will become unresponsive. On cruisers/choppers they use trickery with the tripple tree and leading axles to keep trail in check with extreme fork angles. Best handeling is most likely exactly as Honda produced the bike.
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Kurt Nolte <[email protected]>wrote: > Lucky you, the shafties don't like adjusting the rear end via shocks very > much at all. :p > > Lowering the rear end alone might make it look better, but it will also > negatively affect the handling. You would be effectively increasing the > fork angle, which would tend to move the handling further toward the > "cruiser" end of the spectrum. > > A compensating lowering of the front end (and it won't be as simple as > just shortening the forks by the same amount as the rear shocks!) would > bring the handling back in line, but remove the aesthetic element of > lowering the back end. > > -Kurt > > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Dalton Peel <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Chain drive. I think lowering the rear end would make it look better. But >> the stock bike is fine. >> >> I youtubed the Tim hodge mod. Not a big fan. I think it sounded better >> with no baffles. But i am not sure. Think i will stick with crash bars and >> highway pegs and new paint. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
