Yet another caffeine intake has spiked the memory bank again, and guess what? Quite a few years ago I purchased a pair of replacement shox purported to be just like the "Real Thing". Yeh they looked fairly similar, so off came the rusty OE ones, (which still worked ok). had to change all the fixing eye rubbers etc., and on they went, nearly! Had I measured them? Nah! They were fractionally longer which meant the wheel spindle fouled the silencer. Solution - elongate the fixing hole for silencer and slide it out a fraction. Solved - Nah! They were that long that when bike was on centre stand the rear wheel was nearly touching the floor still and when putting the stand up it missed the rubber foot and fouled the chain, Oh blow! Adjust rubber foot slightly, take bike off stand, sit on saddle and could barely reach the floor!! Bugger this, purchased the ones seen in pics, perfect copy and size, move silencer back just enough for centre stand to connect with rubber stop. THAT'S the reason I can fit spindle with nut on brake side! All that needs checking now is the nut un the saddle. Regards, Michael.