GSXR600 swinging arm in a curvey?

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by squirrel_hunter

One day I will get round to solving Suzuki's design fault but there are other projects on the go so it may be some time...

What's faulty? You've got something cheap, light and stiff enough. More stiffness is not always good

[Sid Squid]

[maviczap]

Eh?

Originally Posted by NTECUK

.I have a complete pointy back end plastics.

Hurry up then and get it fitted, Im about to see how much work is involved with the pointy subframe in the next few weeks, and you could save me all the hard work

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

Originally Posted by maviczap

Eh?

Originally Posted by leebex

+3

[NTECUK]

I was looking at a pointy sub frame on e bay .might be a cut n shut , November when its sorn.

its definately cut and shut, I bought a later ally one by mistake as steel would have been easier to splice the curvy onto it, but hopefully one of the welders at work might be able to do something if I ask nicely

[squirrel_hunter]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

What's faulty? You've got something cheap, light and stiff enough. More stiffness is not always good

The fault is it's F'ugly. Suzuki stopped designing the SV at the swing arm, I would like to fix it.

And Mr. Squid, please, we've talked about this, there is another bike first in the line...

[Jayneflakes]

Originally Posted by squirrel_hunter

The fault is it's F'ugly. Suzuki stopped designing the SV at the swing arm, I would like to fix it.

I have looked at both the curvy and pointy swing arms and to be honest, the curvy one is prettier with the groove down the side.

However, I do feel that with a bit of polish it can be made to look sweet, if funky shapes are your thing, why not go down the route of deep bracing? The modification should be simple enough and will add a degree of character to the otherwise clean and simple swing arm. Once finished and highly polished, I am pretty sure that it would look the dogs danglies.

If you want to go completely wild, you could go for bracing at both top and bottom, but this would worry me due to my hugger getting in the way or it hitting the sub frame if not done low enough.

By doing this, one could have the bracing join a centre section that could also shield the shock from road spray, however I strongly suspect that the only benefit of such a modification would be cosmetic.

Now if only I knew a local welder who can do aluminium sexiness and not ruin an otherwise fine swing arm.