The Chopper Compendium

Krymis and gww25, thanks for your insight. Curt, I haven't forgotten about you, I haven't disassembled the front end yet! So I have gone back to the drawing board, corrected the rake to 55 degrees. Krymis, as you asked, I went to a 2 inch trail at a 105 degree rule . Do my results look appropriate? ...

Here are a couple of more pictures to better show the current set up, and to hopefully help guide me in the best direction.

Currently the biggest problem is that the springer doesn't function as a springer at it's current geometry. Currently the only suspension comes from the rear leg flexing. I thought that by re-designing the rockers I could improve the trail, reduce neck flop, and correct the geometry so that the spri...

Krymis, can you further explain to me the rationale for setting up with 0.125" of trail?

@curt: thanks!

@krymis, here's the numbers moving the 90* rule to 105* and trail to 2"

Krymis (and others), firstly, thank you very much for placing your wealth of knowledge on the web. I feel that I have only scratched the surface of my learning with these suspensions, and feel myself being dragged deeper and deeper. I have a long chop that has been raked to 45*. There is no offset i...