17 CRF linkage snapped off frame

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HenryA 10/1/2017 9:10am
10/1/2017 9:10am
sebastianer wrote:
probebly what happend to seely last moto.
Someones got to have that million dollar spy shot of Seeleys linkage!
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ML512 10/1/2017 9:16am
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sebastianer wrote:
probebly what happend to seely last moto.
HenryA wrote:
Someones got to have that million dollar spy shot of Seeleys linkage!
They swapped shocks between motos, not frames...that should be your first clue.

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Jrewing 10/1/2017 9:19am
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Mustve been the eyelets as the spring would hold it up. Or the bolts
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Jbulz 10/1/2017 9:30am
10/1/2017 9:30am Edited Date/Time 10/1/2017 9:31am
sebastianer wrote:
probebly what happend to seely last moto.
HenryA wrote:
Someones got to have that million dollar spy shot of Seeleys linkage!
ML512 wrote:
They swapped shocks between motos, not frames...that should be your first clue.
Bummed for Seeley.

If it wasn't that frame eyelet failure, what kind of spring shock failure would cause it to sack out like that? N2 pressure wouldn't affect ride height that much, right?

If it wasn't frame, I'd guess the spring would have to break, or the spring perch/preload adjuster would have to fail?
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KDXGarage 10/1/2017 10:03am
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sebastianer wrote:
probebly what happend to seely last moto.
HenryA wrote:
Someones got to have that million dollar spy shot of Seeleys linkage!
ML512 wrote:
They swapped shocks between motos, not frames...that should be your first clue.
How do you know this? Please quote your source. Thank you.
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Bruce372 10/1/2017 10:12am
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If someone gets a picture of a linkage dangling out the bottom of sellys bike, it's not gonna look good for honda, whether it's a real world problem for not.
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ML512 10/1/2017 10:14am
10/1/2017 10:14am Edited Date/Time 10/1/2017 10:17am
HenryA wrote:
Someones got to have that million dollar spy shot of Seeleys linkage!
ML512 wrote:
They swapped shocks between motos, not frames...that should be your first clue.
KDXGarage wrote:
How do you know this? Please quote your source. Thank you.
Photo Honda posted on their IG and I texted a few different people there to ask what was changed. I got two responses saying shock, not frame.

Also, I backed up and took aoke screenshots, zoomed in on the area when the bikes was in pit lane. No linkage hanging down was visible.

As many on here know, I'm close with a lot of the KYB guys and I wish I could instantly say it was the linkage and not the shock...but everything I'm seeing and hearing is pointing to the shock.
cookster46 10/1/2017 10:18am
10/1/2017 10:18am
I had N2o discharge once, she didn't sag, just bucked like a wild bronco..... Yeeehaaaa
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Osaka627 10/1/2017 11:47am
10/1/2017 11:47am
Snap-On won’t admit this, but their tools are just too powerful. Bad Torque setting.
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BobPA 10/1/2017 12:46pm
10/1/2017 12:46pm
ML512 wrote:
They swapped shocks between motos, not frames...that should be your first clue.
KDXGarage wrote:
How do you know this? Please quote your source. Thank you.
ML512 wrote:
Photo Honda posted on their IG and I texted a few different people there to ask what was changed. I got two responses saying shock, not...
Photo Honda posted on their IG and I texted a few different people there to ask what was changed. I got two responses saying shock, not frame.

Also, I backed up and took aoke screenshots, zoomed in on the area when the bikes was in pit lane. No linkage hanging down was visible.

As many on here know, I'm close with a lot of the KYB guys and I wish I could instantly say it was the linkage and not the shock...but everything I'm seeing and hearing is pointing to the shock.
Broken spring or main shaft
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KDXGarage 10/1/2017 7:00pm
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ML512 wrote:
They swapped shocks between motos, not frames...that should be your first clue.
KDXGarage wrote:
How do you know this? Please quote your source. Thank you.
ML512 wrote:
Photo Honda posted on their IG and I texted a few different people there to ask what was changed. I got two responses saying shock, not...
Photo Honda posted on their IG and I texted a few different people there to ask what was changed. I got two responses saying shock, not frame.

Also, I backed up and took aoke screenshots, zoomed in on the area when the bikes was in pit lane. No linkage hanging down was visible.

As many on here know, I'm close with a lot of the KYB guys and I wish I could instantly say it was the linkage and not the shock...but everything I'm seeing and hearing is pointing to the shock.
Thanks for the follow up.

motoarmageddon 10/1/2017 8:10pm
10/1/2017 8:10pm
Hondas are bulletproof though....i hate when ignorant people say that. Bulletproof? Ask Seeley haha!

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