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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
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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
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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:
2-04 R1, 81 CSR1000, 81 LTD1000, 2-83 GPz1100, 3-79CBX, 81 CBX, 3-XS650, 84 Venture, +parts
Quote "speed costs money...how fast do you want to go?" (Which Z movie?)
Universal formula for how many motorcycles one should own = n + 1, where n is how many motorcycles you own right now....
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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.
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Very nice!
I believe its called "Oppositional Defiance Disorder"
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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....
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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!!!!
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1976 KH400 Production Road Racer.
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