I deleted the airbox on my Hawk and threw a cheapy Amazon pod filter on it. The Hawk is a horse of a different hue, though. It's a carb, and dead simple. There's no electrics to worry about for IAT, or anything like that. Just a few minutes with a dremel tool and off the old airbox came. I would say go back to stock height, and call CSC and see if they know of a stiffer rear shock that will keep you from bottoming out on the airbox. Another option you might consider is getting some fiberglass mat and cut out the bottom of the airbox where the tire hits it, and then just change the shape with the fiberglass mat. Pretty much everything that's going to be a solution is going to be a lot of work.

You can buy a complete wheel from an older version and then you can fit a 15 tire and the problem is solved, or you can just change the rim. I would go in this direction if you do not want to raise the suspension because you do not have to play with the air box

The whole point here is to run knobby tires. A 15" rim has zero selection in knobbies.

Charles.

Charlie, you keep raising the bar, so how about a 16" rim?

I'm going to experiment

That red spring is allot softer, more coils/thinner wire. Funny thing is it looks due to the much longer travel the both shocks look they'll compress to about the same length.

The new shock is a centimeter too long and I knew it would be so I had to drill additional holes higher and then it will be 410mm instead of 425mm and it will be perfect, because 405mm is minimally too short today I will try to do it the shock is firmer and damping works of course as everything in this motorcycle fits on millimeters.

it was a bit of fun

everything fits

So far I am half satisfied, because I have to ride to see how the spring works more rebounds and when I pull the bike off the center stand, the shock does not drop the bike stands normally on both stands and you sit on it normally the rear wheel is raised about 2 centimeters, because that's how much it was hanging above the ground when the bike was standing on the center stand I had to pump up the pressure in the shock absorber, because the damping was working poorly finally I will be able to take my girlfriend for a ride.

So how does it ride? You have the 18" or 19" front wheel? What's it like approaching max speed?

Charles.

I don't know Charlie World War 3 is starting and I don't really feel like riding the Russian scum invaded Ukraine and is massacring civilians.

Yeah. I get that. Nothing I can do about it though, except drive myself crazy watching the news. A ride would be far more productive for me. But then, I'm very far away in the USA. Judging by the license plates on your wall, you're somewhere in Europe, possibly Germany. That's a lot closer and I can understand why you'd be more freaked out than I am. Sorry things are going to shit over there.

Charles.

I am in Poland 50 km from my border there is fighting it's all the fault of the German project nord stream 2 now 4 reich blocks stopping the swift system and Putin goes further the materials are on crazyshit.com or sadystic. pl but it's terrible content and shows that the Russian army is a bunch of militiamen and young people in their 20s and are from far away villages in Russia they didn't know they were going to war the losses of Russians are huge they are foam scared and untrained Putin is a complete idiot, because he is living in the past he forgot that now there is internet and phones everything can be seen he is losing the war and he knows that if he does not conquer Ukraine it is his end, if Ukraine surrenders I will have to go to war because I live in the eastern flank of nato and I am 34 years old.

In general I took up another project, but it requires a lot of testing, and thus a lot of time I need to produce 8 volts from 1 candle to have energy to charge the phone in case of need, of course I could easily make a large generator, but I have set myself an ambitious plan and it has to consist of 4 Peltier modules, the one used by NASA so far it is going better and better, half of the generator produces 2.80 volts, but there are different modules and one produces 1.50 volts and the other 1.20, but it is not enough I have to give a thicker heating plate, because this one is too thin, and in other tests I got 2.30 volts from one module, which is very high.