Dot Heton
XS650 Enthusiast
John, I love your expirience and willingness to do things outside of the conventional way but you and I use our bikes in completely different ways. Your blanket statement of a 36 tooth rear being useless is, well, "useless". If I put an 18 in front and a 36 outback I will still have exactly stock gearing and it will give me more clearance over the swingarm. I was asking how much clearance it would give me but I guess nobody knows. I'll just have to do it and not worry about it.