KX Riders
Maintenance & Technical => KX250 / KX125 => Topic started by: Motocross chris on January 11, 2015, 04:42:34 AM
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Hoping to get some advice. I have a great 98 Kx 250 and want to convert the front end to a more modern fork. Looking for folks who have experience with this. I have a 2006 KX 250f as well and would love to put the forks from that on the 98 2 stroke. Guys have also said that the forks from 05 on Yamaha's are really good too.
Here's what I'm asking: what are the best forks for this conversion and the easiest way to do it? I also want to use the front brake and wheel off of the more modern machine.
Thanks!
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the easiest way is like you said, complete forkswap with wheel and brake ... i´m to 100% sure, that the brake calipers on both bikes are also unchanged from middle 90-today (still same brakepads) only the brackets could be diferent between fork and caliper.
the size of the kx /kxf stearing stem bearings are unchanged since they came to the kx125 /250 and still used on the actual 4strokes till today...
if you want to use a yamaha front end , you have to make sure, that 1.) you use the right bearings and 2.) that the yamaha triple trees will fit with the kx-bar-turning-stop .
there are some dealers out there, that sell bearings for this kind of fork conversion .