05-03-2012, 02:32 PM
the fork is from a 92 or 93 fzr1000 becouse a fzr is a heavy bike, and these old ups forks are not the perfect with adjustment and stuff, but they are strong enough to hold the waight (and even maybe stoppies if i practice my ass off)
a newer fork is most of the time shorter, and 50% lighter.. and we all know that lighter is not stronger..
the front wheel is a real wheel from a yamaha xt660x one one side we could make a new innersection of the disk brake and the other side we needed to make a spacer so we could make the disk on (a lot of cnc work i can tell)
maybe it was better to build a new wheel with a ktm adventure hump, but this wheel crossed my pad, so we tried what we could do, and made it fit.
now i'm gonna need to find out if my front brake is strong enough, and if so, i will unspoke the wheel. chrome it, and put new spokes in it.
the rear wheel is a 17 inch from a streetbob and fits right in the sportster! so no problem with 16 inch tires, and the bike is now on 17 front, 17 rear, so i think its good for the whole position of the bike.
but its a hd, so i need to make a lot of parts myself. and ordering parts from the states to europe is shitty..
now waightin on my sprockets and than build it up.. and hopefully i can ride in 2 weeks!
a newer fork is most of the time shorter, and 50% lighter.. and we all know that lighter is not stronger..
the front wheel is a real wheel from a yamaha xt660x one one side we could make a new innersection of the disk brake and the other side we needed to make a spacer so we could make the disk on (a lot of cnc work i can tell)
maybe it was better to build a new wheel with a ktm adventure hump, but this wheel crossed my pad, so we tried what we could do, and made it fit.
now i'm gonna need to find out if my front brake is strong enough, and if so, i will unspoke the wheel. chrome it, and put new spokes in it.
the rear wheel is a 17 inch from a streetbob and fits right in the sportster! so no problem with 16 inch tires, and the bike is now on 17 front, 17 rear, so i think its good for the whole position of the bike.
but its a hd, so i need to make a lot of parts myself. and ordering parts from the states to europe is shitty..
now waightin on my sprockets and than build it up.. and hopefully i can ride in 2 weeks!