Ok, here we go. I coudn't go upstate for the exhaust change and final tuning due to the humidity. I thought I'd use the time to install the BiTibo's. Here's some shots of the install. Don't know about the hard bags, but with the leather bags on the SERK, the reservoir must face forward and on the bottom. As you'll see from the pics, I tried them facing rear first because they looked cooler that way. But I couldn't mount the bags. So I spun them around and everything fits fine. It comes with sleeves for the inside of the shock's eyelets so you don't crush the rubber bushings in the eyelets. There are thin sleeves and thick ones. The thick on goes on the frame side of the top eyelet and one thin one on the outside. The bottom gets 2 thin ones, both inside and outside. Hopefully you can see all this in the pic. My shocks are 1" taller than stock SERK, 13". To do it easily, you should have a bike jack and raise the bike off the ground, high enough to get a floor jack under the rear tire. This way you can move the swingarm easily up or down to line up the bolts with the holes easily! Now I have to adjust them, but at least they're on now. To hot and humid now. I'll adjust them later!
Hoist!
First ones are shocks mounted with the reservoir facing rear.
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Topic: Bitubo Shock Upgrade (Read 96917 times)