Corse Dynamics Ride Height Rod Fitted To S4

It was a bit of a faff and I had a hard time getting the bottom bolt undone and balancing the bike on a couple of axle stands was a bit precarious but...... success. Seized ride height rod removed and replaced with a lovely new black one which offers more adjustability and actually does the job it's supposed to.

I lengthened the rod by around an inch over standard, which I reckon equates to around 2" more ride height.

It feels a lot livelier and more purposeful now. It changes direction like a bluebottle and most importantly it no longer does that annoying Monster thing of running wide on the way out of corners.

The bike also looks better although it leans over quite a bit further on the side stand.

 

Thanks for that. But worrying eh? Though I would like to know what sort of load the bike was carrying (two up plus luggage by the sound of it)

I would have preferred to stay with a Ducati rod, but the second hand ones are all usually seized and there just don't seem to be any other options, hence why I had to buy in from that Americky.

I carry a pillion a fair bit, although she's tiny (less than 8st) and I'm not a big guy myself, so fingers crossed it'll be fine while I think about/look for an alternative

 

Yeah. I've thought about that already. As the Corse Dynamics rod is actually shorter than the Ducati one (it's advertised as being able to lower as well as raise stock ride height), to get extra ride height you need to wind the ends out further than you do with the Ducati item.

When the standard rod has its ends fully wound in, it is the same length eye to eye as the Corse Dynamics one with about a quarter of an inch of thread showing at each end (a bit garbled, but I hope it makes sense).

Alrhough I'm interested to know how much weight the bike was carrying when that other rod failed (maybe it was two fatties plus luggage and larder being ridden on potholed farm tracks), and I would be surprised if the design was so defective they've had multiple failures and yet are still selling them (highly unlikely in the ultra-litigious USA), I'm thinking I might just try and find a OE rod which still works and send this one back to the colonies where it came from. I've survived total brake failure and a wheel falling off in cars and a holdall escaping from a bungee and jamming itself between the seat and hugger of my 748R which locked the back wheel at 60mph, so I think I've used up quite enough of my 9 lives by now

 

Lol. No thanks. Neither breaking every bone in my body or becoming involved in a cross jurisdictional negligence action in which I'm the claimant hold any attraction for me. In fact, given the choice, I would probably rather do the former than the latter tbh.