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Dog Bones, Raising the rear

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Hi, I´m trying to find a way to raise the rear of the bike, looking for shorter dog bones, anybody knows where to buy a pair of shorter dog bones in order to lift the rear of the bike?
Thank you
AC
 
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#3 ·
I'm an advocate of the Soupy's adjustable links, because they allow you to adjust your ride height to whatever you want. It's nice being able to fine-tune the ride height.
 
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dog bones

How far do you have to raise the rear to render the center stand useless? 1"? 1.5"? Any raise will do this?
raised mine 1 inch and can,t rotate back wheel. I carry a small piece of 3/4 thick wood,tilt bike to one side(chain side) on center stand put block under and it works fine. Added a 1/2 inch piece under the kick stand and all is good.Have seen some guys attach a hockey puck to their kickstands as well.
 
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Bought the 5/8" risers for mine. Center stand still has the rear wheel almost 1 1/2"s off the ground(Hepco-Becker). The side stand works fine with a 1/4" Alum. plate on the foot. Don't know the measurement of the dogbones.
 
#10 ·
The stock links are 140mm between hole centers. Each mm difference results in about 2.8mm difference in ride height.
 
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Different brands of center stand will vary as to how much they raise the bike. This is another reason I would recommend the Soupy's adjustable raising/lowering links. You can put your bike on the center stand, then adjust the links until the rear tire is just barely off the ground.

I modified my center stand so that I could raise my bike about 3/4", but still adequately use the stand.
 
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The stock front position has the tops of the tubes, not including the top nuts, level with the top of the triple clamp. The stock rear link is 140mm between hole centers. Every 1mm greater than 140mm lowers the seat height about 2.8mm. Most people have found lowering the front or raising the rear 10-15mm compared to stock improves high speed aerodynamics.
 
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A friend at work races bikes and had some interesting comments:
- if you lower the front, the bike turns in quicker because you have decreased the trail.
- if you raise the rear, you have effectively decreased the rake angle which also makes the bike turn in quicker but has a multiplied effect on the steering response, i.e. 12mm raise at rear is equal to about 36mm lower at front (or summat).

Have you found this to be correct or is it more a 1:1 as you indicated?

Since I haven't been able to get in touch with him recently and I'm looking at raising the rear of the Wee to get a little more gc. Does anyone know what a reasonable amout of raise is? I've noticed anything from 5/8" (134mm) to 1 1/8" (130mm) for the dogs. I'm not really concerned about seat hight because I can flat foot now but am wondering what effect have those who have the raisers noticed on their handling?
Is the 1 1/8" raise make the bike twitchy for long slab or is the handling just quicker?
What is the actual gain in gc for the various length dogs? Is it a straight equal to seat hight increase?
How bad is the effect on the chain slider?
Thanks,
 
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