Lower your forks

If you haven`t already dropped your front forks on the 800 model i can recomend it 100%. Did mine by 5mm it corners better and gives more front end feedback.:thumbsup:

 

do you lower rear? or front only??

 

lowering the rear also would make lowering the front pointless

 

unless you are a shorty and you already lowered the rear, then lowering the front would not be pointless it would just get you back to normal with a little less ground clearance.

 

SO ....what i presume you meant but stated ambiguously is that you raised your forks and therefore lowered your front end ??
I'm doin' minus 10mm on me '86 700..,..seems good 2 me , but i'm a shorty.

 

well it would do nothing for performance

 

"Performance"....,.how would u define that??

It DOES lower the front end and quicken turn-in.....

 

5mm? oh crap. that doesn't seem like very much. I dropped mine about an inch and a quarter. Had to do trial and error, since I'm kinda big (6'4" and 250lbs.) dropped it 2 inches to start, rode down the street up to 35mph and WHAMMO, slammed on the front brake HARD! bottomed out. lifted up to inch and a half, 35 mph WHAMMO! bottomed out. lifted up to an inch, 50mph WHAMMO! no bottom out. So put it about 1 1/4" and handles a heck of alot better than before. The front doesn't "look" lowered until it's parked next to another VFR...

 

10 mm over stock, usually 39mm for 4/5 gen is stock, is the most you will really want to go. This is measured from top triple to top fork cap.

 

Raising the stanchions 10 millimeters from the stock position makes a very big difference in turn in. This is the biggest improvement I have made to my 6th gen, and its free.