Another forking question.

Sorry if this has been covered in the past, I did search but could not find the infomation I require .

I'm looking into a front end swap, but I would like to stick to RWU forks. I'd be looking for a good set up for road use (A & B roads),I want something fully adjustable, with a curvey SVS with a 15 stone lump on top .

Any ideas

[northwind]

You can fit all sorts with enough cash/effort, but the TSM approach- GSXR SRAD 600- would make the most sense. They'll be set up too light for you really, so if you want best results it'd make sense to budget for a respring and revalve- tbh it's a good idea to have old forks serviced anyway, loads are on their original oil and some SRAD 6s are 10 years old There's 2 variants though, I think one lacks full adjustability but I can't remember which. TSM is your man here.

Recommending the SRAD here for the yokes, which are a simple fit to a curvy SV and even look very similiar (though they're black not silver) Yokes are the hardest/most expensive part of a swap if you're not careful. You can fit all sorts of others but then you have to start thinking about lock stops, and the steering lock if you want it- and be really careful here, losing the steering lock can make your bike very hard to insure. A lot of insurers will steer away from a bike with a fork swap alread, you don't need to narrow your options further.

[TSM]

Yep northy, around 98/99 they changed slightly to give compressions adjusters, just look at the bottom of the fork leg for a adjuster. In looking, the srad upto 00 forks are good and work easly with the calipers without any shimming needed to be done, only problem you may have is that the calipers from thoes years of forks tend to damage easly on the load inner faces making pads rattle etc.. The option i like better is to get the K1-K3 600 forks and the calipers from thoes years and just shim them out a little, SVRash can tell you the ammount they need to be shimmed by, but thoes calipers are newer so less likley to suffer the above problems, also the forks look nicer as they have blue adjusters and fork seal protectors as standard and are generaly newer.

[northwind]

Wasn't sure if they were the same diameter, nice one... The calipers will need spaced in by around 2mm each to centre them, which you can do with a couple of M8 washers, dead easy.

[TSM]

Originally Posted by northwind

Wasn't sure if they were the same diameter, nice one... The calipers will need spaced in by around 2mm each to centre them, which you can do with a couple of M8 washers, dead easy.

Calipers from each of the years eg pre-00 & 01-03 are diffrent, so have to matched up with the correct forks.

[northwind]

Yes, i know- I was referring to fork diameter, and the spacing needed to use post-SRAD forks and calipers in SRAD yokes (the offsetting is the same in both 750 and 600)

what would be the recommendation for a pointy if you are limited on money but will find enough to make improvement to my set up

[northwind]

Depends how limited is limited... If I had a curvy I'd take a long look at the Matris kit, not all that much more than springs oil and emulators for proper cartridge forks with external adjustability... But of course, that's just the paper spec, they might not measure up.

But it also depends on your technical skill- if you can do your own work suddenly a GSXR swap becomes a viable option, as the SV bits sell for as much as GSXR bits So you can, if you avoid the latest cutting-edge parts and shop carefully, fit a GSXR front end and wheel for less than you get selling the SV bits I'm thinking Y-K3 GSXR750 here for a pointy, but I'm not all that well versed on them as with the curvies. If you're reasonably heavy, a revalve and respring should really be budgeted for, mind.

Even just respringing and oiling for your weight gives very good results, just because it's basic, don't ignore it- I did it to mine before the GSXR swap and to be totally honest I could've been happy with it- it wasn't amazing, but it was decent. I wouldn't want to go back now that I'm used to better, but I didn't really feel much need for more. Maybe I would have by now, who knows? But the other thing is that the parts keep their value quite well and also, if you choose to upgrade to emulators the springs still work.