What a difference an inch makes!

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New Pro­gres­sive 412 rear shocks on the Stone. They’re all shiny and chromey and I wish I’d got­ten black cov­ers instead. The shiny chrome makes the rest of the bike look dirty. I’ll try clean­ing it and see if the chrome starts look­ing good.

Replac­ing the rear sus­pen­sion was sur­pris­ing­ly easy. It took only about 20 min­utes. OK, grant­ed that Turnsignal Tim did all the real work, but I was there and it was real­ly straightforward.

What amazes me is that one inch short­er and it seems like my bike is a toy now. I’m going to take it up on Sky­line in the morn­ing to give it more of a chance, but I’m real­ly amazed at how much the bike changed by using a short­er shock. I’m very very tempt­ed to go back to the stock shocks and/or get a set of shocks that’s the same size as the stock ones.

I’ll report back after I do some more rid­ing on it.

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3 Replies to “What a difference an inch makes!”

  1. As I’m sit­ting here at work,
    As I’m sit­ting here at work, I just over­heard some­one say “You’re not a bik­er until you’ve been to Alice’s.” So, have you been to Alice’s?

    (I have no idea what or where Alice’s is.)

  2. Haha, yeah, I’ve been to
    Haha, yeah, I’ve been to Alice’s. It’s a restau­rant at the cross­roads of Rts 84 and 35 (Sky­line and La Hon­da). I’m not sure that vis­it­ing a restau­rant makes any­one any­thing oth­er than a cus­tomer or a tourist, but it is a pop­u­lar week­end attrac­tion for peo­ple both on bicy­cles and motor­cy­cles. There are fre­quent­ly a lot of peo­ple there show­ing off their chrome jobs or their vin­tage bikes or their $20,000 after­mar­ket-part-laden sport­bikes (which usu­al­ly have only worn the very cen­ter of their tread because they don’t dare scratch the paint on their “Xth most powe­ful bike on the planet”).

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