Finally took my struts off

[RacingJake]

It's been like 10 years running struts with wheelie bars and last year I ran without wheelie bars but kept the struts on. Last year my best 60 ft w/o bars but with struts was a 1.52

So I used my 11" harley shocks I had laying around and made some brackets and bolted them on keeping with the theme of my bike Did a few launches in the garage and looks like it going to work. Since I don't have eye's in the back of my head a camera was the next best thing

Hoping I can get into the high 1.40's now


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[bellucci]

I tried the reverse... and I like having the bars... All I saw without bars was sky thru 3 gears... I have a pic of a no bar bike with the real long swing arm and he is at 1 o'clock with the front wheel... How do you recover from that... Any way let us know how it works...
Curt

[rapidray]

I'll bet you a dollar your 60s improve by a tenth or better. Struts & no bars just don't work as well as shocks do with no bars. Just set the shocks up as soft as you can with as much rebound in them as you can get. You want them to compress quickly but come back up slowly. Ray.

[RacingJake]

Well the last time I stood it straight up was years ago when I took the bars off and then let it roll out of the water box during a burn out and the slick gain traction, scared water box guy cause I was heading right at him.

I got a GSXR swingarm on it thats has 4" extensions, swingarm pivot to axle is 27 " which helps compared to the stock one.

Can't do much with the rebound with these stock shocks and they only travel around 3" max, but I got a feeling they'll stay compressed to the finishline with my fat butt onboard. In the movie clip they look to be compressing fully on my slick concret floor ?