From another Jeff....
It was a snap to put in although everything takes me 3 times as long as I just gotta study everything 6 times over before proceeding. (Would have liked to keep the YamaLink on the coffee table to look at for a week just cause it is so pretty.)
Great instructions included that you can actually read as oppose to so many after market instructions that look like they have been copied 30 times over on a copy machine in Asia. Took the bike for a short spin through the woods after installing the YamaLink and was very pleased. I can highly recommend your YamaLink. Respectfully, Jeff
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Yamaha lowering link WR250 suspension and forks
2008 Yamaha WR250F owner Jeff emailed asking for some pointers on his YamaLink and his 250's front forks:
I bought a YamaLink about a month ago and love it! Being able to get my feet down has saved me several times while racing. I have a question that I hope you can offer a little advice. I reset the sag as suggested, to about 3.9” and I can really feel the difference in traction. However, it feels as if the front end is now to light and while powering through corners, it feels as if the front is coming up and I am losing traction in the front. Will raising the forks fix this issue? Any advise would be appreciated.
Our reply: You may be experiencing the borderline of understeer. Slide the fork tubes up a few millimeters. A few mm makes a big difference. One other option is to take a bit of sag out. If you are bottoming more than a few times per ride (a bike should bottom once in a while otherwise it means full travel is not being utilized which means sag or settings are incorrect) or don't need as much plushness, cranking the shock spring down a few turns will put more weight on the front end.
Each complete turn of your Yamaha's shock spring is about 2.5mm. Six mm is a 1/4 inch. Or you could just do the fork sliding up if the rear sag/suspension/feel is exactly how you like it.
I bought a YamaLink about a month ago and love it! Being able to get my feet down has saved me several times while racing. I have a question that I hope you can offer a little advice. I reset the sag as suggested, to about 3.9” and I can really feel the difference in traction. However, it feels as if the front end is now to light and while powering through corners, it feels as if the front is coming up and I am losing traction in the front. Will raising the forks fix this issue? Any advise would be appreciated.
Our reply: You may be experiencing the borderline of understeer. Slide the fork tubes up a few millimeters. A few mm makes a big difference. One other option is to take a bit of sag out. If you are bottoming more than a few times per ride (a bike should bottom once in a while otherwise it means full travel is not being utilized which means sag or settings are incorrect) or don't need as much plushness, cranking the shock spring down a few turns will put more weight on the front end.
Each complete turn of your Yamaha's shock spring is about 2.5mm. Six mm is a 1/4 inch. Or you could just do the fork sliding up if the rear sag/suspension/feel is exactly how you like it.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
The Firearm Blog
We went to Europe a few weeks ago as part of a Yamaha dealer network visit. While in Venice we took a tour of the Palazzo Ducale di Venezia, and snapped this pic of centuries-old pistols.
CLICK HERE to visit the Firearm Blog
CLICK HERE to visit the Firearm Blog
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
WR250R WR250X IMS tank Wheeling Cycle Supply
A nice option for those long trips on the WR250R and WR250X. Wheeling Cycle Supply has the new IMS tank:
Click HERE
Monday, October 11, 2010
Yamaha YZ lowering email of the day
From our Yamaha YZ 250 lowering link rider up North.....
Installed your product this weekend. Very nice fit and finish.
Bike was originally set up to run GNCC by a friend of mine - he was lured away from the Yamaha by a KTM with E start so he never really got to race it.
He'd spent a fair amount of effort on the suspension - sent everything off
to LGS for a revalve and respring. He's about 10 lbs lighter than I am and 2 inches longer in the legs.
Installed the Link and the Bike sank out of sight - reset the sag, 30mm
static - 100 race this bounced the bike back up a little but it now fits
great - no more looking for a tree to kickstart or doing the big leanover -
Trail tech kickstand still works fine.
The original set up of the bike although fine for him was beating the hell
out of me - kicking horse rear and washing out fluttery front, constant
struggle to keep from breaking over on tight turns.
The YamaLink took a race suspension set up for fairly hardcore competitive rider and civilized it nicely.
Forks were slid up 8mm - I now have a nice tracking highly compliant woods bike. Front sticks hard and the first to break loose is the rear. I think
I'll be able to improve the rear with a little air pressure drop in the tire
and more prudent throttle control.
All in all, great product - thank you very much.
Tom
Installed your product this weekend. Very nice fit and finish.
Bike was originally set up to run GNCC by a friend of mine - he was lured away from the Yamaha by a KTM with E start so he never really got to race it.
He'd spent a fair amount of effort on the suspension - sent everything off
to LGS for a revalve and respring. He's about 10 lbs lighter than I am and 2 inches longer in the legs.
Installed the Link and the Bike sank out of sight - reset the sag, 30mm
static - 100 race this bounced the bike back up a little but it now fits
great - no more looking for a tree to kickstart or doing the big leanover -
Trail tech kickstand still works fine.
The original set up of the bike although fine for him was beating the hell
out of me - kicking horse rear and washing out fluttery front, constant
struggle to keep from breaking over on tight turns.
The YamaLink took a race suspension set up for fairly hardcore competitive rider and civilized it nicely.
Forks were slid up 8mm - I now have a nice tracking highly compliant woods bike. Front sticks hard and the first to break loose is the rear. I think
I'll be able to improve the rear with a little air pressure drop in the tire
and more prudent throttle control.
All in all, great product - thank you very much.
Tom
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