Here's a spreadsheet I've put together to help understand changes to the rear suspension. It's for bikes with a 4 bar type linkage like my bandit 400 and sv650.
I thought I'd tidy it up and post it on here in case anyone else found it interesting.
I made it using OpenOffice, but I've saved it as an Excel spreadsheet also only it seems in the Excel version some of the formatting was odd - the linkage graph labels had changed and one of the lines went missing. There's also a pdf with the calcs to help understand it.
I got most of the measurements for my bandit and sv by taking a photos (zooming in and standing far away hopefully helped to reduce the distortion) and then importing them into a CAD program and taking measurements.
Here's the link:
http://cid-b37a983fa606d24a.skydrive...se.aspx/Public
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