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Lowered Wilber Shocks

sloride

New member
Took some pics while down to Edgewater Fl having my 40mm lowered ESA shocks put on by Herman Eshuis . He's a very conscientious businessman and excellant mechanic

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I used Wilbers to lower my bike 3 inches and love them

I lowered my bike by 3 inches using Wilber shocks several years ago and have been very pleased with the results. The only negative consideration is that I scrap my bash plate when riding off road. Me and a buddy of mine both rode our 2005 r1200gs to Colorado in 2006. We used a jeep trial to cross over one of the mountain passes outside of Silverton. I bottomed out so often that I tore my stock bash plate off and flattened one of my exhaust pipes.
But it sure is nice to to be flat footed on my bike.
 
I'm enjoying the lowered RT. The Wilber shocks are so much smoother than stock.

The good = bike seems to handle the road better especially in the turns . The front end seems much more planted.

The bad = of course is the loss of lean angle. But I can live with that
 
+1 for Hermann. I just swapped my R1200R ESA shocks for Wilber's ESA, but stock ride height. What a difference! Hermann received my old shocks, attached the Wilber's custom bits to the old ESA housing, and took it back to UPS in less than a day. (The Wilber's bodies took three weeks to come from Germany before all that, though.) Great guy.

I paid an extra $100 and had the springs powder coated black.

Cheers, Tom
 
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