actually, I probably misled you in my original post...I'll go back and fix it...
The rear is actually lowered 1 1/2" overall height from a fixed point. The front forks are slid up thru the trees about 1" which doesn't necessarily translate to the overall front being lowered 1", it's probably more based upon the rake and trail....
Overall, the shop did the calculations andtried to retain the stock geometry as much as possible. I would have love to keep the stock height, but that just is not practical for me...I also looked for lower profile seats but none available, just customs which may be on my list over the winter....
BTW, I've written a bunch of reviews and lessons learned/watchouts on the Suzuki B-King forum. Hopefully it'll help out folks in the future! As a piece of trivia, did you know you cannot take off the front fender without taking the front wheel off first?!?!
JamesD: mdfdwarrior:
thanx for the honesty lol...do you mean the way it was lowered or just that fact that it is lowered?
I had it done professionally so as to maintain as much of the geometry as possible. As for lowering it at all, I needed to do so as a safety issue since I was on my tip toes at stock height...
JamesD:
IMO it looks broken or wrecked the way it is lowered.
Odd
Lower in the back than the front. I guess I just don't like it lowered. I wouldn't even comment but I really want one of these so plan to follow your build.