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Fork Upgrade
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I know the whole front fork swap has been covered to death. My question is this:
When do fork swaps become an upgrade? When the forks went over to the inverted style? The reason I ask is that the older the parts bike...the cheaper.
Finally, when swapping front ends (triple trees, forks, wheels, brakes, etc.), how much modification is required to the steering head to get it to fit properly? Spacers, new bearings, etc?
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77 KZ650 C1 with ZX7 forks, GPZ mono rear, wider 18 police wheels and Yoshimura motor.
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Post edited by: minutiesabotage, at: 2008/01/16 00:30
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My $0.02 anyway.
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Still recovering,some days are better than others.
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why not just change the oil in your stock forks,maybe add some progressive springs?
Changing front and rear means wider rims thus better tires, bigger and better brakes, more rigid handling...
Z1000R ´83...Slightly modified...
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Is there a reason everyone chooses Suzuki suspension parts? Is it for fitment purposes or because they have the best performance?
There's a large quantity of Suzuki parts avaible and most of them are swapable between their own models. The Suzuki stuff also doesn't normally take a whole lot of fab work to fit the Kz's.
For example the '01 Gsxr front end going on my 900 fit right in to the the Kz bearings. The only problem I had was the nut on top of the upper bearing engaged only 2-3 threads (not quite enough but some maching of the stem and tree took care of that).
The '91 Gsxr750 arm I'm using is actually narrower than the Kz frame by a few millimeter which is easier to fix than if it was too wide.
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im from nebraska,our roads are pretty flat and most of our corners have stop signs on them!PLUMMEN wrote:
why not just change the oil in your stock forks,maybe add some progressive springs?
Changing front and rear means wider rims thus better tires, bigger and better brakes, more rigid handling...
Still recovering,some days are better than others.
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