A Small Issue – lowering kit for a ZZR250

NortikittyKat · Post by **NortikittyKat** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:28 pm

Ratmick wrote:There's likely to be plenty of meat in the seat (the bike, not yours), how about a seat resculpt? If all you need is an inch lower they will be able to remove and replace the foam in the stock seat with a different foam OR shave the existing foam down to a more suitable shape so you can get your legs straight down to the ground rather than out to the side and then down OR they can do both. There is a few guys down in Melbourne and one in Brisbane that do this sort of thing, where is MacArthur?

HTH

Mick

Hey Mick - any idea's where this guy is? The one in Brisbane that is... gotta get the seat on the 7 done...

Ratmick · Post by **Ratmick** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:47 pm

NortikittyKat wrote:Hey Mick - any idea's where this guy is? The one in Brisbane that is... gotta get the seat on the 7 done...

My description of 'Brisbane' may have been a bit hopeful

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http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~maddoggy/

He's at 3239 Old Cleveland Road, Capalaba 4157.
Telephone contact: (07) 3245 3979

HTH

NortikittyKat · Post by **NortikittyKat** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:48 pm

Thanks for that! I will send him them email and he see what they can do for me!

ttc · Post by **ttc** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:19 am

There's also a guy in moss st, i've seen him advertise, but i don't actually know where he is..

NortikittyKat · Post by **NortikittyKat** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:05 am

ttc wrote:There's also a guy in moss st, i've seen him advertise, but i don't actually know where he is..

Thanks Tanya!

I will ask around and see what I can find out.

Princess · Post by **Princess** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:56 am

Neka79 wrote:
WRT_GPX wrote:.. unless you wanna stick your arse in the airbox, your not gonna acheive much.

?

is she gunna take the tank off too??

isnt the battery and electronics under the seat? could get a bit warm without a seat on there...nice and tingly tho..

Princess · Post by **Princess** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:31 am

Neka79 wrote:lets see...

so far weve had...

lower the suspension to its softest/lowest setting
cut the foam outta the seat
let out air from tyres

this is gunna be one very uncomfortable bike to ride!!

Yeh, sounds like it so far

And if I take the seat off it as well, it’ll be a real buzz

Outside of having my legs lengthened

(a costly & painful process so I've read) I'm trying to locate someone who could make/customise lowering links. Something similar to those in the pic.

The option of platform boots sounds hilarious though, especially the Bling, Bling version LMAO. But I already get a good inch out of my Rossi’s now.

Anyway I stopped in and had a quick chat with Richard from Narellan Kawasaki this morning and he's pretty sure he knows of someone. But if anybody else knows someone that does this pls let me know. Cheers

mike-s · Post by **mike-s** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:58 am

theres a guy on ocau/mc named quan-time who is a machinist in Adelaide. if your able to get an accurate drawing to him he can machine it up for a reasonable price.

Or failing you being able to get a picture to him, if you can find out the bolt diameter, the eye to eye distance and the thickness of the current bones. He may be able to work something out similar to the above picture you've got.

But at the moment i think he's uncontactable as he's heading over to philip island for the supers.

Princess · Post by **Princess** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:26 am

Sounds great, ta. I'll be there (PI) on the weekend too!

Neka79 · Post by **Neka79** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:35 pm

mike-s wrote:theres a guy on But at the moment i think he's uncontactable as he's heading over to philip island for the supers.

aww crap..im riding over on my own cos i dont kno ne1 whos going...

WRT_GPX · Post by **WRT_GPX** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:16 pm

Neka79 wrote:
WRT_GPX wrote:.. unless you wanna stick your arse in the airbox, your not gonna acheive much.

?

is she gunna take the tank off too??

isnt the battery and electronics under the seat? could get a bit warm without a seat on there...nice and tingly tho..

i had a check, it still sticks out a few inches from the tank, so maybe if you sat backwards.

and nah, just battery i think, electrics are on the sides.

Princess · Post by **Princess** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:35 pm

WRT_GPX wrote:
Neka79 wrote:
WRT_GPX wrote:.. unless you wanna stick your arse in the airbox, your not gonna acheive much.

?

is she gunna take the tank off too??

isnt the battery and electronics under the seat? could get a bit warm without a seat on there...nice and tingly tho..

i had a check, it still sticks out a few inches from the tank, so maybe if you sat backwards.

and nah, just battery i think, electrics are on the sides.

matt76 · Post by **matt76** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:17 pm

Princess wrote:
Outside of having my legs lengthened (a costly & painful process so I've read) I'm trying to locate someone who could make/customise lowering links. Something similar to those in the pic.

I am about to make a set of lowering links (dogbones) for my Z1000 for the drags, I will let you know how i go with them, if it works ok I can make you a set. Otherwise all you should need to do is go to any machine shop and tell them what you want to do and they should be able to work something out.

MPE engineering in Brisbane should certainly be able to help, He makes all sorts of lowering links for drag bikes.

Matt