Moto Woz Shocks - Anyone Running These?

[370banshee]

probaly not... why woudl you need long travel on your shee anyway erik?

[Wacko Jacko]

they say its not just about the extra travel, they claim that linkage smooths out the overall feel of the rear suspension since its gota more travel to play with, and makes it more plush..and plus, 8.7" of travel sucks . the linkage boosts it to like 11.25" or something i think, would that linkage hang down lower though? and do u think it would be weird without a long travel setup up front? also they say the stock banshee front end is 9 inches, with regular, non long trvavel,+2 arms and aftermarket shocks do u think its adding annymore travel up front?

[MX86]

actually the long travel isn't giving you a whole much more travel, it become more like a dirtbike rear shock in the fact that it has to have race sag. which then most of teh travel will be in the mid stroke were the suspension works the best.

[Wacko Jacko]

yea they say it lowers ride height up an inch or 2, while increasing travel by 1 1/2 inches. im just surprised no one else out there makes an aftermarket linkage to help fix the poor geometry ,, i guess its time to sell it and get a 450

[MX86]

really nice setup IMO, but costs an arm and a leg, reason for no one else going into that market, is avarage joe don't need long travel suspensions with race sag and all that. too much money.

and ever popular in supply and demand.

parts are expensive = more money required to assemble them
more money to assemble = higher price for consumers
higher price for consumers = less people buy them
less people buy them = less profits being made

and so on and so forth

[370banshee]

actaully true long travel does give more whhel travel and suspenions swing... when you go to a long travel setup you go with a longer shock mounted farther outward and usually downward form that of a stock shock..