I've had a look at it, there is 4.9" of travel, the problem is I only have 3.9-4.5" clearance before the wheel hits the rad (this is an extremely non-standard bike) I was initially told that there would be sufficient clearance by the garage, however, when I fit a fan to the radiator I have this problem (hence my other post wondering what the thinnest fan out there is).
I've hunted round the web and have found that a lot of Drag racers add spacers above the topping out springs which pulls the damping rod and lower tube up, this reduces travel but also fork length (which I don't want)
Do the masses know of any way to reduce fork stroke while keeping the fork the same length?
I was thinking (depending on what actually bottoms out first) that if I get the same rate spring but shorter (or cut the existing spring) and then take up the gap with a longer preload spacer that this will effectively reduce the distance the fork compresses before the spring bottoms out.
Other methods are something like this:
http://www.traxxion.com/store/detail...roduct_id=ESFC which I may be able to get made at work,
Or a completely new front end (of anyone knows of any that will fit and have a greater offset than the gixxer so the forks are further forward from the rad.
Apologies for the post length, but I want to check what my options are (measure twice cut once)
Cheers
ste