Re: [ST] 43mm Fork Question

[Gavin Lawrie <gavin.lawrie@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1 May 2006, at 15:34, Jim HIGGINS wrote:

> Gavin,if you are going to do a fork swap with all it entails--swapping
> wheels,brakes,and all--why not go all the way and put some nice  
> upside down
> forks on there.They can be had for good deals on eBay, etc. It is  
> only a bit
> more work at that point. Have a machinist make a steering stem that  
> fits the
> Triumph neck and your good to go. I have done the complete front  
> swap on a
> couple of bikes that way. Have a GSXR front end on my FJ 600 turbo  
> bike,was
> not that hard.Got the better forks and brakes all at once.Jim.

Yes, had occurred to me.  But not sure I ever worked out why upside  
downs were better than right way ups, and had rather hoped that with  
similar fork tube dimensions I might get away with simply slotting  
new right-way-up forks in place of the old: except that I agree it  
probably would make sense to keep the brakes and wheel from the donor  
bike too (unless they were horrid condition etc.).

Are there any benefits to upside down forks (that I'd notice on the ST)?

Best regards

Gavin Lawrie
ST'03
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