Them Old Dog Bones

It's a little over 16k since I pulled the shock linkage off and cleaned and greased the bearings, so after pulling off the shock linkage this morning, and since I had the dog bones off and was already going to be powder coating some other other parts in semi-gloss black, I decided that I would finally make them look a lot better and get rid of the chintzy looking CAD plating, and especially the really nasty looking, angled shear edge from when they were stamped out at the factory.

I spent about 20 minutes total smoothing them up by first taking off the majority of the material on my large 2” belt sander, followed by a final finish smoothing on my smaller 1” belt sander with a fine grit belt.

Some members are going to say "WHY". I'm not one of them.

On my last 1200 i had one end welded up and then redrilled 6mm higher or lower (carnt remember )to lift the rear end 25mm. Anyone done this
to a 1250.

Buellord is running different dog bones to Jack up the rear. He reckons it transforms the bike handling wise as it makes it quicker to tip in, which isn't a bad thing

The Ohlins SU715 is around 10mm longer eye to eye which translates to about 25mm at the rear wheel, works pretty good,

I'm using a 2008 Busa shock which is longer and lifts the rear end and I love the handling it really loves being leaned over now, best bit I got it off ebay brand new for $110 delivered.