Be careful not to over tighten the bolts and crush the forks. Any hawkers in your area who could help?
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Allen Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: You have to lower both ends equally to not affect handling. Lowering the forks in the triple trees will speed up turn in and make the bike want to fall into a turn. Conversely lowering the rear makes the bike harder to steer and want to stand up in turns. If you have your front and rear height adjusted properly it will turn in easily, and you could let go of the bars in a turn and the bike would remain stable. I suggest getting riding boots with thick soles before modifying the bike, if that will do the trick. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Joey Kelley <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:14:02 To: [email protected]<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] need help lowering/taking off front tire Welcome Melody! Congrats on buying your first bike! I would echo the sentiments already mentioned - the front forks (the big tubes that hold the front tire to the rest of the bike) can be lowered however, it is in general not done in favor of lowering the rear instead. Suzuki made an entire line of bikes in the 80s with an L after the model number for Low and basically all they did was to re-work the rear suspension and change the seat for a lower one. If you're entirely too short for the bike - as in we're talking inches too short - it might be better to consider a different bike than to try to re-work the suspension on this one. If we're talking about a small adjustment - that should be doable with the rear suspension and perhaps a modified seat. Other thoughts? -Joey On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 9:15 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I am 18, a girl, and this is my very first bike. I am completely > clueless... > > I just bought a 83 Honda nighthawk 550 and was told that it is as tall as > it can be when I bought it. knowing this, I figured I can lower it. The man > didn't help me at all with telling me how to lower it. I have figured out > that I need to lower the "front forks" or something and from all my > research, I have figured that this involves taking off the front tire. > > Can anyone tell me how to take off my front tire? I don't even know what > to search to figure it out myself. > > Thanks to anyone who can help me! > > -- > 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. > > > -- -Joey Kelley JoeyKelley.com - My Life Online JoeyFixesComputers.com - Its What I Do! JoeyKelleyPhoto.com - Photographing Today, For Tomorrow -- 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.
