Spamy wrote on 08/08/14 at 08:24:29:Do those caps work ok that way Dave? I notice you dont have the 10 mm spacer that is build into the stock top triple. I imagined that the o-ring seal would be into the threads without that spacer.
Therefore you actually have 1/2 inch spacer + 10 mm deeper cap equaling closer to 3/4 or 1 inch.
The way that works, is that by the top caps being 10 mm more down, it only gives 10 mm more preload, not lowering. You could actually chose to only add 2 inches of preload, and keep the forks the same length, or matter of fact, make the forks LONGER, by ~1 inch.
Have anyone noticed when their fork was not modified, that when you leaned the bike to the left on the sidestand, that the fork would stretch aproximately 1 inch, and when you sat on the bike again it would fall back down that 1 inch.. The first set of spacers I used was 1 - 1/5 inch, and it didn't seem that the fork was lowered 1 - 1/5, but that was because the fork would naturally drop down the same length as my spacers. But then when I sat the bike on the sidestand again, it didn't stretch anymore. So if you wan't to lower the fork by lets say 2 inches, you actually need to make spacers that are a bit longer than 2 inches, to acomodate for the ~1 inch, that the natural weight of the front, will press down the forks.. IF you measure from the standpoint from when the bike is ridden, and not when it's on it's stand that is..