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Gentlemen,
Im setting up an FZR swingarm on 71 H1. Im not sure what angle to se the shock at. I looks good at about 30 degrees. What are the critical factors? Or am I overthinking it? See the pick with my cardboard mount!

Dont poke fun at my brake pedal. Jist trying it out before I consider rear sets!

12 or 13 degrees seems to be the good "droop". I set mine so I get 25 degrees of rake with the stock front end. But I don't know what front end you are using.

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get slightly longer shocks and go back ~about an inch, inch and a quarter. needs to be a bit closer to the axle. I did this on my rd (fzr400 swinger) and considered it on the 74 h1 I had at the time (with an fzr600 arm I had). From what I remember, when you get shocks about 1" longer than stock, and get the back end about 1" higher than stock , you are about right. I did the math at the time but that was like 8 years ago.

That helps! I think Im mostly worried about the location of the mount. Makes sense. Thanks.

This example doesn't look right...http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kawasaki-Other-/122138289972

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Yeah that lools kinda funky. I welded my mounts as close to the rear axle as I could and still allow the rear shock to clear the caliper. I ended up with about a 30 deg angle, about the same as stock

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Just info, both Erv Kanemoto and I used to set our rear shock angles to 36 degrees, +/- 1 degree, with the suspension fully run loaded, bike and rider weight included, as the bike would run down the road. I did so by adding a shock mount at the upper frame junction, below the stock upper mount stud. the ones on my street H2 cme off a TZ750 twin shock'r I made into a mono-shock setup.

Erv used this setup on both H2R and TR750 bikes he set up for Gary Nixon, and some of the twin shock TZ's he did for other riders.

Now, some might say that is OK for a full on road race bike, but, my street H2 with Z1 swing arm and 18 inch front wheel sure liked it.

As I said, just info.

heres an idea how I did mine. the swingarms long so the geometry is pretty close to what you are doing.

its handles/rides really well.

Looks good!