Triumphrat

robbiealex

I recently purchased a 1996 thunderbird. Cool bike. I want to make some modifications and am looking for advice.

I want to lower the bike. What is the best way to go about this. Is there a recommended shock?

I want to change the exhaust to something very short and stubby. Any recommendations?

I would like to change the seat to a solo seat. It appears there would need to be some modifications to hide the area on top of the back fender. Any ideas?

Eyun_G

A cowl style seat like the TBS would cover that area on the back fender.

Don't quote me on lowering, but you could probably either go with a shorter rear shock, or swap out the lower suspension link with a shorter one (Legend may be shorter). As for the front you can slide the forks up through the trees a bit to drop it without really hurting the handling.

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oil-spitn-rat

Are you lowering for looks or for short legs? I would not lower it if your a corner nut like me.

I dropped the suspension height on several bikes due to the fact that I'm a little on the miget side. At 5'7" with short legs it's hard to find a bike that I like and that lets me get my feet flat on the ground.

I dropped the suspension on my Sv650 thinking I would like to be flat footed, not recommended it did effect the cornering of the bike, I dropped the forks in the triple tree and used a lowering link. I switched it back within two weeks of riding. Did the same another Ducati.

Fact is I've been ridinga bike too big for me my whole life, whether it was a Schwinn or a Ducati. I finally realized I will never grow into them!

If your not a cornering person and just cruise about then you should be fine.

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T-Mac

I got this info from this site last summer. Lowes and Home Depot were out of the flat bar stock so I went to a local steel supplier and they cut the bars for me to length. Both bars cost me about $9 total.

"Legend drop links will do the trick. These dog bone looking things on the rear suspension from a legend will lower it 1" & 1/4
Or you can make your own, 1"X1/4" mild steel flat bar. Cut to 8.5"
STock links are 7" centre to centre.
To lower 1 inch holes are drilled 7&1/4" c to c
To lower 1 1/2" 7&3/8" c to c
To lower 2" 7&1/2 c to c
Drop the fork legs through the triple trees a maximum of 5/8"

By the way I forgot to mention the holes in the drop links are 15/32" diameter "

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