CB125F lowering

[Buckster]

1 minute ago, Marcel le Moose Fondler said:

I'm actually not fat at all...I only weight 200 pounds...it's just I'm so tall...it makes me look slim...lol.

You are 5’10”, that isn’t tall.

[Saul]

Just now, Marcel le Moose Fondler said:

I'm actually not fat at all...I only weight 200 pounds...it's just I'm so tall...it makes me look slim...lol.

Narcissism?

[Pedro]

Just now, Saul said:

Narcissism?

No, twatism!

 

[Pilotdavo]

Did you find a solution with your CB125F to lower it? I’m trying the same for my wife who is 5’1” and is using the bike for practice before getting her full licence. 
 

I have lowered the ride to lowest setting and bought a seat to reshape the foam but failing that I’ll try shocks too. She is practicing with techniques to get her left foot down and that helps but as it’s very new I’m just trying to give her some confidence with low speed handling. 

[Buckster]

2 hours ago, Pilotdavo said:

Did you find a solution with your CB125F to lower it? I’m trying the same for my wife who is 5’1” and is using the bike for practice before getting her full licence. 
 

I have lowered the ride to lowest setting and bought a seat to reshape the foam but failing that I’ll try shocks too. She is practicing with techniques to get her left foot down and that helps but as it’s very new I’m just trying to give her some confidence with low speed handling. 

@Saul?

[Saul]

2 hours ago, Pilotdavo said:

Did you find a solution with your CB125F to lower it? I’m trying the same for my wife who is 5’1” and is using the bike for practice before getting her full licence. 
 

I have lowered the ride to lowest setting and bought a seat to reshape the foam but failing that I’ll try shocks too. She is practicing with techniques to get her left foot down and that helps but as it’s very new I’m just trying to give her some confidence with low speed handling. 

Shadow (my daughter) is 5'1"  and she is coping with the lowered/cut down seat.  She is on standard shocks on the lightest/lowest setting.    Still on her tiptoes but she is managing.   Even with the seat lowered you don't gain that much as the width of the bike does splay you legs a little.   We didn't get shorter shocks in the end but they are available from ebay, may be worth a punt for you, they weren't that expensive maybe £30 or so.   Sorry but that is as far as we got.    

[KAYZ1]

I have a lathe and a milling machine and used to make Yokes and other bits for people...But the cost of Ali

is such that it could well be cheaper to get an engineering firm to Lazar cut a top yoke..Just a thought. If 

you have a good engineering drawing it could workout not too expensive ..and repeatable ...

Just looked at my supplier for Ali a lump of Ali 4" wide and 2" thick..( smallest length is 1mt ) is £257.80p

Then the drawing and electric even if i did it for cost..See what you are up-against!! bloody inflation ...

I am Shaw you will find anther Honda bike with top yoke that would work.   

Lyn..trying hard to keep my mind off life at the Mo.

[Saul]

8 hours ago, KAYZ1 said:

I have a lathe and a milling machine and used to make Yokes and other bits for people...But the cost of Ali

is such that it could well be cheaper to get an engineering firm to Lazar cut a top yoke..Just a thought. If 

you have a good engineering drawing it could workout not too expensive ..and repeatable ...

Just looked at my supplier for Ali a lump of Ali 4" wide and 2" thick..( smallest length is 1mt ) is £257.80p

Then the drawing and electric even if i did it for cost..See what you are up-against!! bloody inflation ...

I am Shaw you will find anther Honda bike with top yoke that would work.   

Lyn..trying hard to keep my mind off life at the Mo.

Thanks Lyn, yeah I am fairly sure the yokes from the previous CB125F are a straight bolt on and that would help for sure with dropping the front.   It would certainly sharpen up the bikes quite lazy steering.  My mate that has the Guzzi has his own workshop with milling machine  and lathe plus everything else you could ever want.  In fact he used to make custom yokes for BMW Airheads as a sideline for a bit of cash not that he needs it.   So fabricating something was also an option for Shadow but she copes well with her bike now, a year and 15k miles experience has made all the difference so the problem has gone away to a degree as she has learned to cope.  She wants rid of the CBF now but is to young to do her A2 yet.  I could see her getting a sporty looking CBR125R when finances allow, for her.  Shadow is very envious of Grace's (family friend) CBR125R.  Not something I am getting involved in.    She has some health issues at the moment which I can't share on here that have curtailed her biking a little but she is still dead keen nonetheless.