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Originally Posted by yorkie_chris
Yeah, new GSXR stuff will go on.
You right anyway, curvy ones do look better. Not sure they look like a sportsbike though!
You bothered about steering lock?
For me, with your budget I would go for K4/5 GSXR 600/750 front end entire, revalve it and the carbon wheel for the same model should fit.
For the rear, no question, use penske. 8983 is brilliant, 8987 a little better (not sure how much, as I have not tried mine yet).
For your rear wheel, late model GSXR stuff may work. However the SV uses a quite narrow chain offset. You need to reduce the offset from the GSXR. The problem you will probably run into is the fancy aftermarket stuff does not have any meat on it (hence so light!) so you can't just hog material off to line the chain up.
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Ta for the response - I've been searching and there's tons of stuff to use so thanks for the lack of 'do a search you moron'. It's just scattered everywhere and some of the bits I want to do have threads devoted to the pointy bike when mine is a curvy.
Basically, I want to put USD forks on the front for better handling, hopefully with nice taper roller bearings and not the junk that's currently making my front end feel 'clunky' and prone to its-going-to-start-slapping when touching a bump or ridge mid-corner when leant over.
First jobs are being done already - consistent sticky tyres (I like Bridgestone BT-003RS as I had them on my Ninja 250 and they transformed the bike), and a new rear spring and damper. I've already ordered a Nitron mid-range (2-way adjustable, set up for my weight before delivery, made and set up very locally to me so very convenient if I need a rebuild / adjustment made) remote reservoir damper, which is competitively priced. I don't know if this is as good as your Penske recommendation, but I'm making the assumption here that *any* known brand damper unit will be adequate given that the performance of the complete bike will be MUCH higher than my talent and ability. If the Penske is 10% better than the Nitron when I let Lorenzo borrow my bike
then it's not going to be a big deal for me
Also, Nitron dampers are well-regarded in the Lotus car world, from which I've come back to bikes from (I drive an Exige S PP as my trackday toy, haven't got the balls to take bikes on track yet, though am getting the itch)…
The rear damper / spring and tyres should be done in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for the K4/5 recommendation - got millions of different combos now! Is this a straightforward swap i.e. use forks, brakes, wheel, yokes from GSX-R and think about bar ends later, or will kits / machining of yokes be required (is there a thread already on this?). There's a thread on GSX-R750 K7 USD forks onto a curvy… looks lovely but has snags - is this something I'm really going to need to consider taking the bike to a specialist to do? If the K4/5 you recommend is similar to the K7 then yeah, I'm up for that (the K7 pics looked fantastic)...
It sounds like there's an easy front end (600 SRAD?) swap I can do myself, resulting in 10 yr old RWU forks from a GSX-R. I know I should be focusing on performance rather than looks, but looks drive me to wanting to swap to a more recent USD fork set front end, which looks to be a lot harder on a curvy SV. Also, I know GSX-R riders (and have been castigated for calling them 'gixxers' too, heh), some are quite, politely, nutty
and I'm not so sure that a 10 yr old set of GSX-R forks are going to be in great condition. So really I'd like to use newer replacement forks, this gives me the 'look' of USD (and the performance, unsprung weight being even smaller esp. with carbon wheel) and the likelihood that a set from a breaker will be in good, low mileage condition. I'm assuming here that the best bet will be to buy a guaranteed-straight complete front end from a breaker - buying the parts from Suzuki would be idiotically expensive, right?
I'm happy getting a specialist to help me out - but they've got to be local… I live in NW Kent. I want to do some of the work myself to learn about it all (rather than yet another cheque-book project) but don't want to touch safety-related stuff (brakes, for example) myself…
If it turns out there's a race shop that does MiniTwins within 20 miles of me then I'd be better off contacting them about the project, no? After all, the suspension change and rear wheel swap is pretty common by the looks of things.
Regarding your first question - yeah, I'll want *some* sort of steering lock because I also commute on it! I don't really consider the current bike to have much in the way of steering lock though… However I *so* want steering lockstops to prevent the tank damage shown in one of the other threads from someone who dropped the bike with a converted front end with no stops. Or the possibility of tankslappers smashing my fingers to bits, of course
And the curvy with side fairings looks pretty sportsbike-like to me! Well, I reckon anyway. Shame to cover the lovely frame piping though… that's last on the project plan of course
