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ZX RACER is correct.....you CAN lower your front like he stated without having the front on a stand and done one side at a time. However, I found that it is easier to have the rear on a stand (but not neccessary) and a floor jack placed under the engine and jacked up just enough to take as much load off the forks as possible, but not high enough to raise the front wheel off the ground. What may happen if you don't take the load off of the front wheel is that once the triple clamp bolts (on one side) are loosened, the compressed spring will force the fork to slide too far "up" past where you want it.
So, again, this is what I have done in the past.
1) put rear up on stand.
2) place floor jack under engine to take load off of front wheel.
3) loosen triple clamp bolts slowly on one side.....might help to have someone watch and tell you when the fork starts to slide up so do don't loosen the bolts too much.
4) using hand, twist & push up on fork (in my case, the stanchion since mine is not USD forks).
5) tighten bolts when you get the amount you wanted raised <--- fork raised/bike lowered.
6) repeat other side.
7) for me.....I just use a ruler and use the flat top of my triple clamp to measure the exposed/raised stanchion.
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