How to lower my elite?

[motormike]

I'm willing to compromise a Lil comfort..Substitute: "I'm willing to sacrifice ALL suspension and have absolutely no comfort or handling"
for a sweet look ill do a Lil more homework and keep u guys posted

..Do the homework because there are right and wrong ways to approach the lowering of a scoot. The right ways involve high dollar mods and look cool. the wrong ways look like the red Spree...
cheers & g'luck......

[po5bmx]

heres mine tucking a 10"



allot of custom work gone into it tho













but that still wasnt low enough for me so i stripped the forks and chopped an inch or so off the springs



guess i got carried away with the grinder as i now have around 20mm travel

[Kevinstonge]

You may/may not like what you have when you get done, unless all you want is to look cool.
Ride characteristics will change....g'luck......

Motorbike said it best. The ride will completely change( in a bad way), so obviously just know what your getting into and forget about hammering the twisties.
But with that being said, if in fact you are looking for a more show than go theme, then a mild stretch and fork swap might be the best option. There's plenty of info on this site alone about both, just search the wiki and build threads.
The pics you supplied are decent examples, but maybe a touch too low... The 2nd spree and 2nd elite e look to have zero travel in the front which is asking for trouble. In fact the elite e looks to have no shock on at all.
If money is no issue then look for a sym dd50 front end, and a sweet stretched motor mount from graphite9.

[Kevinstonge]

po5bmx: what fork setup is that? props on the machining to make it work!

here is my aero in progress. im leaning toward a metro or dd50 fork swap, but for now i just raised my upper shock mounts 1".

[Kevinstonge]

Modified fork
http://s546.photobucket.com/user/kevins ... 8Xt5f.dpuf