I did the ZG1400 Rear Shock upgrade on my bike this winter and it is the best money I have spent so far excluding the Baldwin Saddle rebuild. It soaks up the Pennsylvania backroad potholes with barely, a sensation that there was a bump. My girlfriend loves it as she bore the brunt of the stock shock bottoming out.
The only issue I have is that it makes the bike taller than what it was before. I can push the bike up on its centerstand with ease and I don't trust the side stand with how far it leans over now... I can no longer spin it on its centerstand to turn it around in the garage (my driveway is gravel and sloped and I know it is not safe... )
Has any one made their own lowering dogbones or does anyone know to what length they can be cut? Can a longer bolt be used in the lower pivot with unthreaded spacers so that straight turnbuckle tie-rods can be used to crank down on the new shock to lower the rear end? Soupy's Performance has a lowering linkage that makes up the offset in bottom, but I have blown my farkle budget for this year...