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Forks
Motorrad:
Okay cant find it... Need the Triple clamp offset off the last rendition of the Kx500 (2003 forks, forget the year spread)
I have been told my 91 has an offset of 22mm, and the 08 triples I have are 24mm.... wrong direction for a K5 (dont want slower steering yet)... Need to find out if I need to go with the 09 23mm or? before I pop for a scotts damper mount.
Motorrad:
Crap... 22mm is stock for late Kx500.... This means Im 2mm in the wrong direction... To add insult to injury.. Just measured the fork length... the Kx450 fork is longer... hence making it even worse yet in the wrong direction... I can fake some of that by raising the forks in the clamps...
so stock trail number of 4.57
Ill be somewhere around 4.48
this is all assuming the kx500 clamps and kx450 run the same angle.... as I cant find those numbers to save my llife
Motorrad:
Now that I do some research... I may not be too bad.. as it may make the bike turn better... Not sure if the front end will try to wash out... we will find out.. I run a damper so it should counter the effects I was worried about (instabilaty at speed)... Or It will handle like garbage... any input is good input...
Am I right on that? Not sure im thinking straight.. My brain is toast at the moment. More offset will make it turn faster, yet less fast stability?
Motorrad:
Just got a reply from Destry abbott about what they ran on their 500's
"I'm 99% sure we changed ours to 23mm off-set."
So this means Im golden... Shweeeet. Always good news when your told you screwed up in the right direction ;)
Cant wait to pick up my forks and shock from Precision concepts tomarrow....
(was going to go racetech, till I found out they wanted $1600 for the custom rear shock I was planning on having them make)
cbmoor:
Motorrad,what is it your doing are you fitting new triple clamps for newer style forks. The reason I was asking was I am thinking the same but using the crf 08 tripple clamps as it has the possibility of using the crf stearing damper and the crf tripple trees are 22mm only the 2008 ones but its getting someone to make a new stem. I seen on this site somewhere some one else using a crf tripple trees.
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