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FZ1 Rake and Trail

Posted on | March 4, 2010 | 1 Comment

I want to do a complete suspension set up on my 2006 Yamaha FZ1. I need to get somebody to hold up my bike while I take measurements and make adjustments. I have been feeling like the bike doesn’t quite handle as easily as I would like it to.
I started looking into trail and rake and comparing various bikes. After looking at my results, I may want to raise my front forks a bit to decrease my rake angle after I do my suspension setup.

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  1. Raising the forks on a 2006 Yamaha FZ1 : jeremyblanchard | blahg
    March 6th, 2010 @ 4:14 pm

    [...] thing that caused me to adjust my suspension now is the feeling that I was fighting with my bike, see previous post. I wasn’t fully pleased with how the bike was handling but being somewhat inexperienced with [...]

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