CX650 Eurosport - Adjusting Ride Height

1983 Honda CX650 Eurosport - How do I adjust the ride height? It's the
monoshock version.

Can it be done without major surgery? It just needs to come down an inch
to give its new female owner a bit more confidence.

 

I'm tempted to say no, because...

Whilst that might make it softer, it probably wouldn't change the ride
height. And I'm not sure I'd like to ride a CX with all the air taken
out of the shocks and it would be a tall verywobblybeast rather than
just a tall wobblybeast

I seem to recall that question being asked in the late '80's

 

this reads like a post-Thailand "holiday" post.

 

Too troo.

In fact, it's also clearly the wrong bike for the rider. I'll give you
a tenner for it.

 

I'd not have thought the air would make much difference to the static
sag, more to the spring deflection under load. It might make a decent
difference if she's a big fat bird, or even a short really fat bird, but
she's still have to get her leg over in the first place.

Or even a VF500?

Oddly, if I had one it would have to be a mono...

 

Does it ever.
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platypus says...

Not at all high in the saddle[1] and the VF500 has conventional exposed
twin discs. The VF400 had the enclosed ones.

[1] I had a VF400F and always wanted a 500 - I can easily touch the
floor flat-foot on either. Fantastic bikes they were.

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Lozzo
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I ride way too fast to worry about cholestorol.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

Mate, you're trying too hard.

We already believe you're fucked in the head.

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Wicked Uncle Nigel says...

<compares .sigs>

Really?

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Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE (Black with added black bits)
Suzuki SV650 K3
Suzuki GSX-R750L - For Sale £600
Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka
I ride way too fast to worry about cholestorol.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

What? What? WHAT?

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Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

Now there's a radical concept....