history on cal fab swingarm

I prefer aluminum swingarms myself, here's one of mine, obviously not for a Kawasaki, this is one of the newer Calfab arms, the latest ones have a different swingarm mount?adjuster setup...

A couple of pics of the new Calfab S1 1000r swingarms currently being built at Motogpwerks.. These obviously aren't finished yet...

Hi I'm Chris ,
Just a one man shop ,currently I have 140 swingarms coming through the works not counting 17 bike builds that I need to pull finger on
Lucky I have a S1 at the shop so I did copy that swingarm and added a couple differ met things due to safety ...my Calfab swiinarm

s are the only ones (including Japan ) that at 2 stage heat treated and aged

S1 oil coolers,rear sets ,spondon race calipers also coming through the works

Nice work there dude - the beautiful craftsmanship and the engineering to back up the looks - I wish I had the cash right now - we'll have to talk when I do....

Damn, just realized what has happened here - I got into KZ's because it was getting far too expensive to trick out and modify my CBX's....yeah - that worked really well.... :silly:

Welcome Chris, good to see you here....

I owned a 1980 LTD1000 in the early 80's. I wanted to run a wider rear tire and had been kicking around a few ideas on how to go about making my bigger rear tire, reality.

I remember walking into a place called Cycle Salvage in San Bruno, Ca. that was around back in the 80's, not sure what ever happened to the business. I walked into Cycle Salvage, shopping for random parts for my bike, and behind the counter, on a pegboard....is a wide 16 inch tire on display. I remember asking the parts clerk what size the tire was and asked what I would need to run that tire on my LTD. Funny, this still comes back to me as if it had been yesterday!

Well, what I would need to run the wider tire was a brand new Calfab swingarm that Cycle Salvage had in stock. Needless to say, I bought the swingarm $300.00 back then, what was I thinking, that was big money back then.......actually, still is big money plus cost on the wide tire. The bike looked so bad ass with the Calfab swingarm (polished) and the wide tire. Do not recall what tire size I ran back then, but it was wide!

All I can say is that, back in the 80's, wide tire bikes were not something you would see, like we see now-a-days. So, needless to say that wherever I was with my bike, people would literally come running, to take a closer look at the setup and, asked a zillion questions as to what was involved in putting it all together. Wish I still had that bike.

There's about 8 feet of weld per arm, these aren't finished yet, still have to be heat treated....

WOW! Those S1 swingarms are impossibly cool! Wish I could ride hard enough to out handle my stock swingarm because if I could I'd have me one of those things!

Just WOW!!
Very nice!

Nessism wrote: WOW! Those S1 swingarms are impossibly cool! Wish I could ride hard enough to out handle my stock swingarm because if I could I'd have me one of those things!

Just let the swingarm bearings dry out and fail, then just pretend its your sublime skills that are making the bike buck and weave, buy new swingarm....Problem solved... :woohoo:

I'd love one too, my wallet says otherwise....

Z1000 swing arms....

EVERYTHING that MotoGpworks makes is first rate!!!!! You won't find a better made product anywhere, end of question.

KipKawa, the guy in England who made the S1 parts burnt a few people I know out of some huge sums of cash when he closed up. I know of one person he burnt that is looking for blood over what he got taken for!!!!