DanCanMOTO
New Member
Hey forum, haven't been on in a while.
couple questions:
Even before I bought my FZ6R, I knew I wanted to put on woodcraft clip ons and I did a bunch of research but couldn't find anything on my fear. My buddy has a GSXR750 with stock clip ons and I noticed that his clip ons have a screw that go through the triple tree. My biggest fear with putting clip ons on my bike, is that no matter how much locktite I use, and no matter how much to spec the torque is, the clip ons are are going to spin on the forks on day and I'm going to go down. I had a similar thing happen when I was first learning how to pop a wheelie. I came down too hard and my handle bar turned down (under my body weight). The bar only went down and I was easily able to fix it with my trusty dusty tool bag, but if this were to happen with clip ons, I feel the lateral movement would be a lot more catastrophic.
second question:
I weigh 260 lbs. I've heard that the riders weight can affect the handling more when you lower the front end, and seeing that I just bought an icon variant and I'm about to buy the clip ons, I don't really have the money to spend on the lowering link for a couple more months. Will my overweightness affect the handling more so than a lighter guy who dropped the front end 1.5"?
All posts are appreciated!
DanCanMOTO
couple questions:
Even before I bought my FZ6R, I knew I wanted to put on woodcraft clip ons and I did a bunch of research but couldn't find anything on my fear. My buddy has a GSXR750 with stock clip ons and I noticed that his clip ons have a screw that go through the triple tree. My biggest fear with putting clip ons on my bike, is that no matter how much locktite I use, and no matter how much to spec the torque is, the clip ons are are going to spin on the forks on day and I'm going to go down. I had a similar thing happen when I was first learning how to pop a wheelie. I came down too hard and my handle bar turned down (under my body weight). The bar only went down and I was easily able to fix it with my trusty dusty tool bag, but if this were to happen with clip ons, I feel the lateral movement would be a lot more catastrophic.
second question:
I weigh 260 lbs. I've heard that the riders weight can affect the handling more when you lower the front end, and seeing that I just bought an icon variant and I'm about to buy the clip ons, I don't really have the money to spend on the lowering link for a couple more months. Will my overweightness affect the handling more so than a lighter guy who dropped the front end 1.5"?
All posts are appreciated!
DanCanMOTO