24-05-15, 09:46 PM
Nah, I want the upside down forks and 5PW seem to be the best option as I can keep my standard brakes and wheel.
The next bit is interesting though as there are folks that have used 5PW lower yokes, 4c8 lower yokes and various other R1 lower yokes. None of them seem to know, or be willing to share, what offset or steering angle they have achieved. Then, even if they have this info they are stuck with what they have, they cant adjust anything. How without adjustable lower yokes,do we know what is optimum is?
Then we know that all the USD R1 forks are shorter than the RWU FZS forks. There is a chart somewhere that tells us how much shorter that I have seen on here, I would be grateful if anyone has a link. Now general consensus is that this is a good thing as it puts the bike more on its nose, like a sports bike and I agree but again, what is optimum? And then what does optimum matter if you cant achieve it as the forks you bought are too short?
So if I can get someone to design a lower yokes with eccentric adjustment in the steering stem plus a stepped top yoke so that any ride height from std down to the more radical R1 settings can be achieved wouldnt that be a good thing? More so if they can make a suitable steering stem from a drawing. Then make the fork holes oversize so they can be shimmed out to fit R1 forks but should you want to fit KTM forks in the future or use them on a different bike -not a problem.
So if anyone has a drawing of the steering stem that the american forum used I wquld be grateful.
The next bit is interesting though as there are folks that have used 5PW lower yokes, 4c8 lower yokes and various other R1 lower yokes. None of them seem to know, or be willing to share, what offset or steering angle they have achieved. Then, even if they have this info they are stuck with what they have, they cant adjust anything. How without adjustable lower yokes,do we know what is optimum is?
Then we know that all the USD R1 forks are shorter than the RWU FZS forks. There is a chart somewhere that tells us how much shorter that I have seen on here, I would be grateful if anyone has a link. Now general consensus is that this is a good thing as it puts the bike more on its nose, like a sports bike and I agree but again, what is optimum? And then what does optimum matter if you cant achieve it as the forks you bought are too short?
So if I can get someone to design a lower yokes with eccentric adjustment in the steering stem plus a stepped top yoke so that any ride height from std down to the more radical R1 settings can be achieved wouldnt that be a good thing? More so if they can make a suitable steering stem from a drawing. Then make the fork holes oversize so they can be shimmed out to fit R1 forks but should you want to fit KTM forks in the future or use them on a different bike -not a problem.
So if anyone has a drawing of the steering stem that the american forum used I wquld be grateful.