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Lozzo - Ohlins shock and GSXR front end...the best there is for the SV!!!. Go on you know you want to!!!!

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Originally Posted by SV650Racer

Lozzo - Ohlins shock and GSXR front end...the best there is for the SV!!!. Go on you know you want to!!!!

Soo true

[northwind]

Originally Posted by SV650Racer

Lozzo - Ohlins shock and GSXR front end...the best there is for the SV!!!. Go on you know you want to!!!!

Not minitwin legal as you well know

I agree though, more or less, you can make the SV forks better than a set of standard recent GSXR forks with enough effort but it'll cost twice as much- you could buy the GSXR forks and upgrade them and it'd still cost less, probably. Plus you get the brakes too.

But then, I wouldn't want to go back from my curent setup now that I'm used to it but I doubt I'd have felt any need to upgrade from emulators and a 636 shock, other than bling.

Originally Posted by SV650Racer

Lozzo - Ohlins shock and GSXR front end...the best there is for the SV!!!. Go on you know you want to!!!!

Listen young lady, you start tempting me with expensive stuff like that and we're gonna fall out. I have mouths to feed, women to chase and race circuits to visit, I can't go spending that kind of dosh.

Originally Posted by Lozzo

Listen young lady, you start tempting me with expensive stuff like that and we're gonna fall out. I have mouths to feed, women to chase and race circuits to visit, I can't go spending that kind of dosh.

It depends how serious you want to get, as Northy said, if you fancy a bit of minitwins then GIXER forks are out anyway! But if you are not interested in racing, as Northy has also said before, if you sell your stock SV front end to re-coupe some funds, the GIXER front end will probably set you back far less than even emulators in the SV forks

It is probably the most sensible solution if you are not racing it as you do get the brakes too!

A race shock is gonna 'smart' whatever though

If you intend to use it as a road bike still, I am not sure what Mr insurance would have to say about a GIXER front end mind

The idea of going racing is getting more and more unlikely as I look at coming financial and time constraints. The original idea was to make this a well set up SV trackbike with the option of using it on the road, and with me being the age I am with a virtually clean licence and full NCB, insurance with modifications still isn't going to break the bank - I'm only paying £213 fully comp for all 4 bikes at the moment, I can suffer another £100 or so a year for the privlege of having a well sorted trackbike on the fleet.

I think I'll have to seriously consider the GSXR 600K4 forks as an option and forget racing. as much as i'd love to have a go, I don't think I'll be able to afford to do it anywhere near competetively and if I'm not up there I'd end up spending shedloads of money to try and get there...which hand on heart I know will never happen. I am hugely competetive in what I do, and if I can't win then I am hell to live with - I was the same as a youngster when I was rifle shooting and also as a sales rep.

If you retain the original SV bits you can always revert back ... or indeed flog /swap the GIXER stuff for stock stuff in the future if you have sold it

So I don't see the potential (now clearly longer term and remote anyway) minitwins plans really preventing a GIXER front!!

Decision made

If I hadn't wanted to keep minitwin legal I'd prolly have gone GIXER front end myself as it does make most sense all round (if you flog your old bits)!!

And yes, if you don't have 'the best' kit, you are making even more work for yourself if you started racing. That said, from my quick flirtation with the series, it ain't THAT tough out there even on an underdeveloped old nail like mine I guess I might just have picked a weak year?!! Coz I know I am not THAT good!! (but better than some will admit)

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Originally Posted by Lozzo

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With no clipons and broken lock-stop (so the bike has been crashed), there is no way I'd pay £400 for that