Originally Posted by george t

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thank you,

spoke to Dr Shox who said I can get it 35mm lower!! (good but expensive)

also contacted Dave Lambeth who was very helpful saying that I can just drop the forks and adjust the two rings in the shock and that should do the job..

***Dave knows better than me. I ran the TT600R shock(ohlins) at its lowest level as the spring is well beefy as standard. The TT600RE shock is different and Dave has prepped these bikes so will know the score.***

looks possible to lower it to 84-85cm

but would that be ok for a 5.4' shortie ??

**** (Girls have longer legs than boys, i believe, so probably okay. Weight is still the issue if you want to do some biggish off-tarmac excursions)***
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Also trying to find out about TTR reliability and strenth of subframe.. seeing on your website you were pretty heavy loaded, did you have to strengthen the subframe at all? (sorry I didn't read the weblog - just looked at the pictures on the prep pages) and did the subframe last on your trip..??

***Did no strengthening to the frame whatsoever. We had really substantial racks which added to frame stiffness, but the four points which connect frame to subframe were standard. In my experience the frame is strong enough.
My travelling partners rack cracked on the heavily potholed roads in Cambodia, but not the bike***
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Seems that XT is preferable to TTR in reliability terms but cann't quite find out what exactly could go wrong with a TTR bearing in mind they share the same engine..

***XT has cush drive. On the road it didnt seem to wear badlt at all, but ive knackerd a front sprocket and chain in 6 months, approx 10000miles. Ive done a lot of trailriding though and i imagine this is the main culprit.....***


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