Wow those J arms look tones different than the ones on the old Hondas. The thing they have on the hondas is a gajillion times worst. The J arm on the Banshee looks like it would work fine. The thing on the Honda has a shock with about 1 inch of travel and the J arm only connects to the frame in the very front.

 

i dont think j-arms are that bad. the only thing bad i see with em are durability, other than that they probably take off a few pounds.

 

WOW...Thanks Chet!!!

 

I heard that the drag racers prefer the j-arm set ups, while jumpers mxers prefer a-arm setup for its durability. I don't know, is the j-arm setup that much lighter? And is the a-arm that much stronger?

 

I wouldn't imagine it is THAT much lighter, but you can estimate 50% lighter than one a-arm (meaning what, a few pounds?).

I have heard that the J-arms are weaker as well, but in their defense I have seen plenty of Banshee's tooling around with their original J-arms on.

A while back a friend of mine was looking at a used Banshee (a 1990) and it had J-arms. He thought that it felt strange when he sat on it so he asked me to compare it to mine. When I sat on it the front was a lot stiffer. I'm sure it could have just been a suspension adjustment though. For instance, when you sit on mine and rock it side to side the suspension compresses....this one didn't. In fact the front tires would actually come up before the suspension actually compressed enough to notice. Like I said, this could have just been a stiff setting or something. Just wanted to mention it though.

-Josh

 

I don't really think the J-arms are lighter. They use a larger diameter, thicker wall tubing than the A-arms do. If you hit a tree, stump, building (maybe only I run into those[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]) etc, you will most certainly bend or break the weld on the J-arm where it meets the frame.