Motorcycle Rear Suspension Lowering Links

Think of your motorbike's chassis as a skeleton - all the organs to make it work get bolted on. With electronic sensors & wiring as the nerves, shoulders made from triple clamps & handlebars connecting the forks as arms, plus stock linkages & swingarms as leg bones. They're called rear swing ARMS & front fork LEGS - but you don't ride backwards, right? So close enough.

If your shorter human frame doesn't quite match the height of your big metal motorcycle bones, these rear lowering links are a DIY way to give you greater control & stability. If your seat is too tall to ride comfortably, keeping you up on tippy toes - these rockers, dog-bones or pullrod link sets drop it quickly & easily.
We have their opposite Raising Links too - plus a selection of special reinforced Performance Links that are designed to improve racing geometry rather than just change seat height. All these kits come pre-assembled with bearings, seals & grease nipples, so installation & maintenance is easy. You'll be improving your suspension by replacing your rusty, sticky or crunchy old shock linkage bearings too!

These sets adjust the back end alone, although you can sometimes drop the fork tubes through the clamps on some bikes to help even it out - but it still changes the factory riding experience. If you want a more comprehensive lowered solution for both ends that keeps the geometry perfect, check out our Front & Rear Lowering Sets - you need to open the front fork legs & rear shock absorber to fit the billet alloy spacer components so are more specialised to fit than a dropped link - but they also include a shorter kickstand, which many people forget about till they try to use the bike and can't park it!

Once you've serviced & lowered your suspension you will need to tune your damping to suit - there is now less travel to absorb those bumps, so you need to turn up the coilover compression & rebound clickers to compensate. Your sag will have changed now too - use our free suspension setup tips to set your spring preload correctly.

If only your human body was this easy to repair & get spares for! We'd all be in better shape. Give it a good service with plenty of lube!