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11 hours ago, VF1000Fe said:

Be Careful climbing the Switchbacks outa (northbound) Metaline Falls.

The "pavement" is White,,.. cause there is a Cement Plant there that's been producing forever, and the surface is impregnated with cement dust.

Its been polished smooth like a Concrete Parkade Garage Floor.

I had a Front Tire slide on it going down, and the Rear slide out going up.

But now that ya knows what its about, have some fun with it,,..

I very strongly second this, myself and my buddy both went down on that same bend, heading down the hill. Those corners are super smooth and slippery.

Me too Mike. I am seriously considering this bike next year. Don't think I could get one this year even if I wanted.

Yay, I'm in.

Looking forward to it and catching up with everyone, been way too long since I made it to one of these.

Oh shit man, that sucks, after all the hard work you put into that bike. hope you can rebuild it and somehow find a way to the summit meet too. But as everyone else has said, the most important thing by far is that you are still around to rebuild it. Yeah, go buy that lottery ticket.

What about the talk of an adapter that you could reuse your old mount? Something like this:

I guess I missed that talk, the idea of making an adapter and still using the stock mount never crossed my mind. I haven't put much thought into it, but I don't think that an adapter would be feasible. That makes for another bolt that could come loose or fail. You have to track down another bolt, my mount completely replaces the stock one and reuses all of the original fasteners. I'm not fond of adding another piece, more chances for failure.

More than one way to skin a cat :mellow: As seen in this thread there have been several different methods shown that ended with the same results.

Zach571

I like the look of your bracket and not grinding down the bolt head is a plus! Are you making more?

I can, I won't be stocking them on a shelf though. Made to order.

Zach571

If you could let me know how much and availability, I'm interested for sure.

That would be awesome earache, the drawing there though is for a fourth gen bike, we or at least I need one for a fifth gen, I think the size is a little different, but really sure of the size. Does anybody else have the correct 5th gen specs.?

I have seen several of these with round spacers. Anyone concerned about the shock rotating, since the oem square bracket is no longer "keyed" by the frame channel? I guess it's remote, but I don't know for sure.

Zach - I have a stock 5th Gen mount on order. ONce it arrives, I'll try to take some measurements if you're still looking. I also have a 929 shock, so I can take some measurements of that, as well.

Dan B

Thanks, but I couldn't wait so I bought a mount and I already have my shock. I got as far as measuring and drawing up the stock mount, just haven't made up longer mounts yet, or the flats to have them cut out on the laser :blink: Once I'm done with it I'll one for sale, and as soon as I get the new shock in I'll have another useless one :blink: I need to either look at my notes or read through this again :fing02: to see what kind of dimensions worked for others and then I was going to make a few mounts, in something like 5mm increments. I'm hoping to make it along the same design of the stock mount, but tall of flanges are kind of limiting with the tooling we have for forming and also being that much taller it will need more support so it doesn't fold over...

I don't think there should be any concern for the upper shock mount rotating. There are no forces exerting on it to do so and as long as the mount is tight...

Zach571

I'd be very interested in one of your brackets when you get them made up. I have the shock already, it's just sitting there in a box waiting for the slightly warmer weather so I can get my ass in gear and do this mod.

Please, let me know when you have some done.

Thanks,

Paul.

I really like the colour scheme, and I'm sure it looks better in person too, hopefully at the Nelson meet, hint hint. not a big fan of the blue trim around the screen though, a little too souped up ricer for me. :pissed:

It's funny you post this today, I went by my local Wal-mart yesterday with the intention of picking up there filter and all they had on the shelves were Fram filters! I don't know if this is just a Canadian Wal-Mart thing though.