lowered the fork tubes in the clamps some. bike was lowered 19mm, now its lowered just 5mm. took a ride last night and the bike tracked straight as an arrow and is awesome in the corners. no hard parts dragged. got the rear preload set to 7, the front 2 lines showing, and both compression and rebound on the front and back set to two turns out. no more monkeying around with the forks.[8D]

 

umm, Congrats. Thanks for the update...

 

I put one morepound ofairin my rear tire and cleaned my kel holes with some q-tips. GOT-ER DONE!!

 

i also figured out why my shifting had become notchy. one of the locknuts was finger tight on the shift linkage shaft. now it shifts like butter. damn near every shift is silky smooth now, even the infamous first to second shift.