Its fine to try and be innovative, but when you are blazing new trails that is when you need to listen to and accept knowledge, criticism, and experience even more than usual. I could go on and on as to why BDI's opinion/posts make immediate sense and should have at least been taken into account and considered. As soon as BDI pointed out some basic differences it was immediately obvious that there was no way to put this shock in the factory shocks place without changing the geometry of the suspension resulting in loss of travel. Plain and simple. At the least you would need to change the linkage to get the shorter travel shock to equate to the total travel available at the end of the swingarm. It all made perfect sense to me. If, and I mean a big IF that shock is supreme over the factory KYB shock (what is supposed to be so technologically advanced???) there would still need to be changes made in other areas otherwise you would be trading suspension travel, for what? Slightly better dampening? Rebound? BDI was just trying to get the guy to think about what he was doing and trying to achieve and whether it was worth it or not or at least make sure he wasn't overlooking something. Some people are just too d**n sensitive and should thus keep their idea/projects to themselves since they cant accept the criticism that very well could have helped push them to the next level. This site is full of PROVEN advancements for our bikes. If you are gonna share an idea or innovation PROVE IT or at least let the brains around here help you/me/us get the best possible outcome from it. As a KXRider I wont accept anything less and like was stated before, we dont want people grabbing a bad idea off this site and running with it. How would that make this site look as a whole? If you have a new idea PLEASE SHARE.... just be open to the brainstorming that will come and be necessary for the best possible results/outcome.
-G
