So Cal Suspension

No you're not. It's going to rain.

You should be fine at 15.5", just back the preload off two grooves. You'll be fine.

What is the pressure set at?

Why you gotta bring that shit up? I'm coming up for the party when skeety gets released.

I hope Ms. Shippe sharted in your seat.

Green, don't be mad because your dunes are getting shut down.

...glamis...

Pretty soon...

parts are gone... thanks for coming, have a nice day

I found these things while cleaning my toolbox. Not sure on the brand of the front sprocket. First one to PM me gets em. Just pay for shipping. (Probably about 4 bucks) Just figured I'd give em to someone rather than throw them away.

If you need help posting pictures, email them to me at [email protected] and I will post them for you.

Send them somewhere else... Seriously, send me a PM with what you need done, and I'll take care of you. It sounds like you will probably need a set of primary springs as well as a revalve.

Those 450 shocks can be fixed, however it wouldn't be worth the money to fix them. Dusty, try to find a set of shocks built for a banshee, by the time you pay to repair those 450 shocks, you'll be way too far into them to justify the cost. I already replied to your PM regarding your rear shock.

Just FYI none of your pictures work.

Dude, give it more than two and a half hours...

...could be... +4 is the most common.

If you don't want to run race gas, change the domes out to a larger size. Get your compression down to the 140 range, and you can run 91/93 all day long. At 155, personally, I'd run 50/50 race gas/91 mix.

Just my two cents, but cornering with an NPL setup is going to be squishy, unless it's used in conjunction with an anti sway bar. A lot of the diehard TT/FT and XC guys run anti sway bars to pick where the NPL lacks... cornering...

ZPS is nothing more than marketing acronym coined by PEP back in the day. The proper acronym is NPL: No PreLoad. NPL shocks are STILL widely used today on TT and XC bikes, and I build an ungodly amount of NPL shocks for the Lucas Oil Off Road Series. The main purpose is to keep the bike/truck lower to the ground and collapsing slightly, and allow DOWN travel. You do NOT, I repeat DO NOT lose any overall travel. The shocks still have the same amount of shaft, and the same amount of wheel travel. A lighter spring is used on the top, called a "tender spring". One purpose for this spring is to keep a little pressure on the primary coil so it doesn't come loose on the spring slider and slap around when the shock is re-compressed (after landing a jump, for example). The other huge advantage of running an NPL shock in a TT or XC bike, is that (as James said) it allows for MUCH finer tuning of the valving since you don't have 2 or 3 different springrates pushing against the rebound side while you're in the air. It keeps the speed of the rebound constant, rather than having springs constantly pushing up against it. The "unsprung weight" controls the speed of the rebound, and is always a constant force. As a spring compresses, is takes an exponential amount of force to keep compressing the spring. This is why springs are measured in LB/IN, LB/FT, or KG/MM. Without confusing anyone any more than I have, NPL shocks have their place. They are not suited to be used on EVERY bike for EVERY riding condition. They are not BETTER than any other shock for any reason. They are designed to be used on a specific type of bike, for a specific purpose. I wouldn't put NPL shocks designed for the front of a Lucas truck, and expect it to perform the same in Baja. It just won't happen. This picture is of Robby Gordon's rear suspension used on his Redbull Class 1 a few years ago. Notice how low to the ground it sits, and that it uses NPL. This car will pull 30" of rear wheel travel, EASILY.

Haha good ol' LSX motorsports. I've emailed this guy before asking him if he was stoned. The reply I got was an image from some Yamaha dealer showing the price of a brand new one... THAT was his reasoning for the price.

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So you're saying it was good? lol... It was 82-84 in glamis all weekend so far.

You should just ride around with your camera flash going off...

Crazy how that works, isn't it?

I see SOME of your points, but to say that without unions we'd all be making minimum wage and living like a third world country is nothing short of pure comedic relief. I've been on both sides of the unions. I've worked union, and I've been worked BY the unions. To say that you NEED to be in a union because you do a dangerous job, is neither here nor there. In case you didn't read my post, I was a member of a police union. Two, actually. They did absolutely nothing for the nearly 12,000 officers they represented. The only things they did was take lavish vacations and hold "conferences" in Hawaii and other exotic locales on an annual basis, on the tax payers dime. Also, to say that the Bosses and CEO's are living the "life" with no financial concern is simply not true. Not a day goes by that I don't think about every one of my employees. Sure, I'm relatively small, employing only 16 people, but my father owned and operated a nationwide architectural firm from 1981 until he sold it in 2004. He retired for two years, then started a small niche electrical business where he builds labs for research facilities. He had over 2100 employees in 26 states, and every one of those employees was a member of the AIA. They were not union because the employees complained about low wages, terrible working conditions, or anything else. They became union because they HAD to. They could not work on almost ANY governmental, or utilitarian infrastructure without being union. Why is that? Is it maybe because the union lobbyists have their hands securely attached to the zipper of every single legislature and "do gooder" in the government? Absolutely. I have NOTHING against union employees. When I was an "employee" rather than an "employer" I loved the unions. They have great promotional tactics, and they really make all the employees believe that they are doing nothing but good for the world. But I refer back to my previous post, where I mention that our county BUS DRIVERS have a union. I think we can all agree that a bus driver's union is a touch ridiculous. If a bus drivers union is ridiculous, where does the line get drawn in the sand? What industries deserve a union, and what industries don't? When does a job become too menial for a union to represent it? I bet you if things keep going the way they're going, McDonald's employees will be crying they want a union. Just a little tidbit along the same lines of McDonald's. My wife is a manager at Starbucks. She makes a considerable amount of money for the job she does [she doesn't do shit]. All of their employees pay $80 per month for COMPLETE PPO health coverage if they work 20 hours a week or more. Starbucks is non union. Does that mean their employees would get paid more, and be treated better if they WERE union? Or is Starbucks an "exception" to the "we'd all be making minimum wage and living like a 3rd world country" rule? Starbucks is considered a "turnover" job. Meaning, they don't anticipate their employees to be around long, and they turn over employees frequently. In spite of them KNOWING that, they treat their employees with respect, and pay them well. I agree that "skilled trades" are best with unions, because there will always be hacks who come in and lowball shit, and do halfassed work. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying it's a bit much that when grocery stores, bus drivers, and fast food workers want a union because they want more and more for their menial jobs. Here's a hint. Strive for more than a menial job at McDonald's, rather than asking for a union to come back you up in your meaningless job.