How far did the bike drop?
That is a good question there....
About the buell swingarm swap. The only thing I would do different on that is try to increase my ground clearance. Before the shock was run under the bike the shorter inverted forks were not an issue. But with the shock under the bike I lost any bit of ground clearance. I have only once hit the shock on the ground will riding. Going @10 tenths., right hand turn, hit bump mid corner and bam I hear the shock tap the ground from the compressed suspension.
It was a butt pucker moment for sure. Could kill the shock, could make me loose traction. But thankfully nothing did happen. Except scaring up my shock a little.
Long story short is I'm hunting down a longer inverted option for forks to gain some height at the front. ZX9 kawi and GSXR1100 forks are the only ones I've seen over the 30" mark top cap to the center of axle. I want to say they are close to 32" but I'm a little fuzzy on that at the moment. The buell forks I'm running now are at the ~28.75 mark, I may end up changing them out...
I was looking into XR1200 inverted or buell Ulysses, till I saw how much those fuckers are going for on ebay. Lost interest on those real quick
EDIT: Maybe it was ZX7 forks... like the 94-97 or something like that... cripes im getting old lol
