LRD Attitude Build

[Big_Mike]

Hey Higgy I been following your build and it's quite a work of art you've put together there!  I'm sure the pictures do the bike no justice, it probably looks 100x better in person!

With that kind of power plant, I would run the +4 swingarm, I don't think a +2 is going to keep your nose down.  I run a +4 on my 420BB and my front end barely stays down and I'm 290lbs..

[Higgy87trx425]

Big_Mike,
 Yeah you got 100 lbs on me to. 420cc is quite a bit more motor too though. I'm thinking that you're right though. I still wanna be able to actually turn around at the bottom of the treeshots and ride the trails. The longer you go the harder it is to get that thang to dance around the trees and in and outta the whoop sections and banked trails. if its too long it just wants to go straight and thats about it!!, lol! Hopefully +4 is the sweetspot!!
 Thanks HIggy

[Pumashine]

+4 is perfect +6 would would be nice also. All depends if you have the room on your trailer. Does not matter what length of swinger you use, the front end will always be in the air.

[Higgy87trx425]

Come on somebody else chime in on the length of a swing arm that I should run? Its an LED 350 and I weigth about 195 lbs. I'm running at 14/38 gearing and I have the LRD dogbone which is 6 1/2" long.
 Thanks Higgy

[Higgy87trx425]

Ya,i already have the dog bone,but thinks anyway.It turns out the 88`89 dog bone is 6in eye to eye.The lrd is 6.5 and i think the 86`87 is 6 and three quarters.Ive been running the 88`89 on a pep zps and its never been right.It turns out theres a discrepensie in in my frame compared to my brothers stock 89 frame.Ive been doing some measurements to get a rear shock built fro Andy,i was half an inch longer from my linkage mount to the dogbone mount than my bros frame.Which in turn wouldnt allow my frame sit an inch and half off the ground.The bolts from the linkage would come up and hit the bottom of the swingarm.So i just tried putting on the lrd one to see if it would help and it did.Anyway the bike looks forkin awesome.Will have to meet up down there at winchester or spinreel sometime soon.

JohnnyFive,
 I just went out and measured my dogbones and I too was running the 6 3/4 dogbone before I switched to the LRD dogbone. If your linkage was hitting the swingarm then you obviously had the wrong dogbone on there. What year is your frame, because the LRD dogbones were made for the 88/89 bikes. When you say that you were a half inch longer from the linkage mount to the dogbone mount then your bros bike. Do you mean the dogbone mount on your swingarm? Could you guys possibly have different swingarms or you may have just been running the wrong dogbone. If the LRD Dogbone fixed all your problems then I'd just run that dogbone!!!
 Thanks Higgy

[havinnoj]

Come on somebody else chime in on the length of a swing arm that I should run? Its an LED 350 and I weigth about 195 lbs. I'm running at 14/38 gearing and I have the LRD dogbone which is 6 1/2" long.
 Thanks Higgy

I've ran +4 to +8's on dune bikes.  And always liked the +4's the best.  The bike still feels agile and comfortable catching a little air.  I wouldn't rule out a +6 but I'm still more comfortable on a +4.  +8 just feels too long for a dune bike.

[Tbone07]

Come on somebody else chime in on the length of a swing arm that I should run? Its an LED 350 and I weigth about 195 lbs. I'm running at 14/38 gearing and I have the LRD dogbone which is 6 1/2" long.
 Thanks Higgy

I think you'll be okay with 86-87 length. I run my LED 350 sphynx with 88-89 length, this is mostly in the woods of course. Maybe if you had a Puma you could go +4

[atvcrazy]

I run a plus 3 over 86-87 length on 363 sphinx.  Still handles well but has a little extra length when you want to drag or hit the tree hills

[Higgy87trx425]

Thanks guys, I think I'm gonna go +4 then. That seems to be the consensus!
Thanks Higgy

[JOHNNY FIVE]

JohnnyFive,
 I just went out and measured my dogbones and I too was running the 6 3/4 dogbone before I switched to the LRD dogbone. If your linkage was hitting the swingarm then you obviously had the wrong dogbone on there. What year is your frame, because the LRD dogbones were made for the 88/89 bikes. When you say that you were a half inch longer from the linkage mount to the dogbone mount then your bros bike. Do you mean the dogbone mount on your swingarm? Could you guys possibly have different swingarms or you may have just been running the wrong dogbone. If the LRD Dogbone fixed all your problems then I'd just run that dogbone!!!
 Thanks Higgy

I was running the 88 89 dogbone which is 6in
.That's when the linkage bolts hit.So I put the lrd dog bone on tonight and now it doesn't.So ya I think that's what I need to run.It turns out that the linkage mount on the sits back a half an inch further toward the motor than the oem frame.

[broken1]

Ok and a few more of the new graphics and Custom LRD Bumper!!



Check out the translucient red plastic behind the holes on the LRD front bumper!! Pretty trick huh, thats a Higgy original, lol.
 Thanks Higgy

Lighting those up with led's would look trick! What a sick bike! Hopefully we cross path's at the dunes sometime. I'd love to check it out in person. She's beautiful.

[Higgy87trx425]

Well thanks bro, much appreciated! I thought about LED's but that NY be too much.... I don't want the bike getting any busier then  it already is ya know. I'll consider it when I set up the LED Headlights.
Thanks Higgy.

[Big_Mike]

Higgy +4 is money for your setup you will be very pleased!!!  Who's swingarm do you intend to go with?

[Higgy87trx425]

I'm really liking the looks and leaning towards one of those Stellar Swingarms!I think that I'm gonna get ahold of them, and get a quote?
 Thanks Higgy

[F-Red]

Ole Wayne had one of those, Stellar arched swingers! They are nice! :Boobies2: