USD forks?

FOSSIL: Your bike is great. Seriously.

Everyone else, just remember... when upgrading suspensions on these old bikes with the geometry changes you will have mush different handling characteristis.

Chances are slim you'll have inherently DANGEROUS handling... but it will be different.

Imagine if you owned a lowered car that sat 3" of the ground, and for one week you drove a lifted truck, then got back into your car. It would be very foreign, and you'd be unsafe if you tried to drive it like the truck.

Same concept. The bike will handle differently, so please do remember to be cafeful for a few days at the least and ride cautiously until you figure out your bikes new attitude!

Oh, and BadKaw is spot on in here. Everyone should read his posts and take notes regarding the technicalities of these swaps. FOSSIL hit the nail on the proverbial head when he took the specs from a modern sportbike and tried to replicate them geometrically speaking. BRILLIANT!!!

Fossil wrote:...People have posted in the past, they didn't understand why go to all that trouble, why not just buy a new bike? Anyone can buy a bike, there's much more satisfaction building and riding your own than plunking down the VISA card. The old air cooled carburated engines are advanced enough to make a lot of power and stay together, but primitive enough to have some character, to have that smell when you shut it off, clicking as it cools down. I refer to built up air cooled motors as "thermal-mechanical violence".
Those who understand, get it. At bike nights, some people asked what year it is and walk away. One night a guy on a Ducati Monster parked beside me and sat there looking at the GPZ for a minute. Asked, is that yours? Yep. Next thing out of his mouth was "holy sh!t".[/quote]

Fossil,
Brilliantly put! That's the best explination that I've ever heard for why I do what I do. Well said.
-KR

Here's a link to my "J" project with inverted front end: kzrider.com/index.php?option=com_joomlab...w&catid=11&id=102114

And here is a link to my ELR Clone project: kzrider.com/component/option,com_joomlab.../catid,11/id,158364/

If you have any questions drop me a line. Here is a pic of the bar mod on the Clone:

with bars

with the tank on