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So now it has all gone to a man to make it fit together, if the stem is the same size into the bottom tree it just needs the diameter reducing to fit the KZ bearing, if not he will make a new stem and also he needs to make a custom top nut as the 900 one is made for a thicker stem (25mm as opposed to 22mm)
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Looking good! The mount looks pretty stable as well. Will the ZX-9 forks be long enough or will you extend them?
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Thanks Calum, it is absolutely stable on the lift even with the imbalance of no front end. The forks do need extending, I have taken on board that Davido still has clearance issues with a Harris pipe - if I extend 75mm that will put the fork length in the middle between a "J" and a "K" so with a 17 inch wheel I should end up pretty much at stock "J" heightI guess I must have not clicked on the last e-mail notification cause I missed a whole lot of posts here!
Looking good! The mount looks pretty stable as well. Will the ZX-9 forks be long enough or will you extend them?
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Unloaded the J forks are 815mm and the K are 840mm - The ZX9 forks are 755mm so with extension will be 830mm - the radius of the wheel is 31mm smaller so ultimately I should be 16mm lower than a J - I can do what I want with the rear as I haven’t made the mount yet and it will have a degree of adjustment- I need to watch the swing arm angle as Davido had an issue with his chain eating the swing armThat should be plenty - although I missed where you're getting the 75mm from? Do you know if the back end sits up higher with the GSXR linkage? Mine is up a bit with a GSXR 750 swingarm due to the length but I'm not using the GSXR shock or linkage.
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I misread your earlier post. I thought you wrote that the forks don't need extending - I was wondering where the hell you were getting the 75mm from!
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HaHa ! Yea it would take more than a few shims to make up 75mm your custom triples are real nice but my aim is to use as many OE parts as possible carefully selected from a range of bikes, there are a couple of reasons for this. First is cost, (my complete back end including wheel, calliper and sprocket carrier have cost £250 so far, if I factor in another £200 for bearings and refurb etc I should be at about £450 - the starting price for a good pair of rear shocks !)Getting the balance of swingarm angle and back end height was a bit tricky with the 750 swingarm. I think I ended up with 10.5-11 degrees and had to compensate for the extra height at the front (zrx forks and custom triples made that a bit easier).
I misread your earlier post. I thought you wrote that the forks don't need extending - I was wondering where the hell you were getting the 75mm from!
The second reason is that I want the finished bike to look like " it could have always been that way" at a glance. I'm not going for "hot rod" with this build and ultimately I'm not a good enough rider to benefit from a £5k front end !!
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Is this thing working? Is this thing on?
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Thankfully I'm not quite at 5k for the front end I am a bit jealous of your costs though - not that easy to keep the prices down over here due to the strict MOT guidelines. There is still a decent difference between £500-600 for the triples or getting the stem reworked with all the correct paperwork - but not enough of a difference for me to not get those triplesHaHa ! Yea it would take more than a few shims to make up 75mm your custom triples are real nice but my aim is to use as many OE parts as possible carefully selected from a range of bikes, there are a couple of reasons for this. First is cost, (my complete back end including wheel, calliper and sprocket carrier have cost £250 so far, if I factor in another £200 for bearings and refurb etc I should be at about £450 - the starting price for a good pair of rear shocks !)
The second reason is that I want the finished bike to look like " it could have always been that way" at a glance. I'm not going for "hot rod" with this build and ultimately I'm not a good enough rider to benefit from a £5k front end !!
Anyway, back to yours... The ZX front end should look good with that GSXR back end, should be exactly the look you're going for.
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