Has anyone extended the swinging arm on there ty 175 ? Where is it best to extend and how much ?

There is no "best" way but most I've seen have extended the axle plates to move the wheel about 50mm further back.

Others have made a complete swingarm.

Hi I have my swinging arm off ready to extend and I was going to ask the same question! I did a search and couldn't find anything I was sure its been asked before. Anyway David I was going to extend mine by about an 1" but you reckon 50mm? As I've just put a 250 mono forks into my 175 frame which as you know has the leading edge forks. So 28mm or 50mm?

Mike I didn't say that extending by 50mm was right. I said that other people had extended theirs by about 50mm. I've also seen someone make a TY175 swingarm up that was about 100mm longer than standard.

I've been considering extending the swingarm on one of my TY175s and was thinking that I would add about 25mm but haven't decided yet.

When you fitted you mono TY forks, did you use the mono TY clamps or bored-out TY twinshock clamps? If you used the mono TY clamps it will have made very little change to the wheelbase or steering geometry.

Edited November 23, 200916 yr by feetupfun

Hi Dave

(When you fitted you mono TY forks, did you use the mono TY clamps or bored-out TY twinshock clamps?)

I used ty175 clamps and got them bored out to accept the mono forks as that was recommended here in a previous post, so I think I will try 25mm to extend!

Cheers Mike