Full SV1000S front end, rear shock.

[Roadstergal]

If you can wrestle this thing onto a GS500 with a BFH, it'd be a significant upgrade.   If you have an SV650, it's an upgrade - and an easier swap.

Helibar risers and stock clipons, forks and triples, calipers, brake lever, master cylinder, kevlar brake lines, rear shock and spring.  Perfect condition.  $250.

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[Tang]

whats a BFH lol

[shiznizbiz]

whats a BFH lol

Big Fooking Hammer

[shiznizbiz]

Dead-blow hammers are perfect tools of persuasion

[Tang]

so wait a minute u hammer the forks in?!

or ur just messin with me

i'm gullible haha

[Roadstergal]

I'm being a smartass; I just mean it wouldn't be a direct swap.

It is a direct swap for an SV650, so I think installing it would be just like installing an SV suspension.

[Roadstergal]

http://www.octaneonline.com/culmination.htm

Pretty much the same FE.  The SV1000 uses a previous-gen GSX-R600 suspension.

There are a lot of posts on replacing the stock shock with an SV650 shock; it should be the same process, with better results. 

[Tang]

i wish someone here could help me put this thing on my bike haha i'm too lazy to do the work hahaha!

[The Buddha]

You can do it ... easy ... just use duct tape. Lots of it. The Camo duct tape you get @ redneck's are us (AKA wally world) is the best.
Cool.
Buddha.

[Roadstergal]

Nothing worth doing is easy.    From that article, though, it looks like all that you'd need would be a steering stem made for the swap.

We did the swap from this suspension to an '05 GSX-R1000 suspension on m'boy's bike in our garage.  That one is too stiff for anything but track use; the stock SV1K suspension is better for the street.

[Tang]

Very nice picture i want to be able to drag knees lol

and where would i be able to get a steering stem made

[ohgood]

Very nice picture i want to be able to drag knees lol

and where would i be able to get a steering stem made

any decent machine shop could whittle one out of 4140 for $100 or less. it'd be pretty, and you could write ya name on it

[Tang]

don't know any machine shops down here

i live in SC if anyone knows any machine shops who can machine a steering stem for this i'd be all over these front forks

[The Buddha]

AFAIK ... more than just the stem is needed ...
The top triple is much larger ... your stem gotta be 25mm dia up there ... the GSXR and by association ... the sv stem is 30 or so if I remember ...
Now you need a doughnut to fit inside your top triple and you have to come up with a stem nut on top of that ... a large washer and a stem nut.
After that you could get it bolted on ...
Smply put, start with 1 1/2 dia round aluminum rod. Then machine the lower part to fit inside the SV lower triple, machine the lower bearing area to 30mm, then machine the whole stem to 30 mm. and the top bearing area to 25mm, then let a part of it be unthreaded and then thread the part that will go over the top triple to the thread pitch on the nut you will use on the top. Then macing a doughnut to that 25mm ID and the dia of the hole in the upper triple OD.
Now if you do all this, you could as well slap a GSXR 1000 front end on it and have radial brakes to boot. It also have high speed and low speed compression and damping as well as externally adjusted preload. 5 way adjustments ... SV 1000 is 3 way, SV 650 is 1 way like a GS.
The stem ... I will bet it will cost you a good 300 bucks ... cutting threads is the killer ... the rest I coud do for ~50-100.
Also I dunno if its risky to have a larger dia in the part that sits in the lower triple and then a smaller dia where the bearings seat ... guess prolly not. But they all make sure its not that way at all ... ever. I've only seen samller part in the stem and larger bearing area diameter. Essentially the goal is, the stem got nowhere to go unless you get the clips out ... how bad if you dont follow that rule ... no idea.
Cool.
Buddha.

[Tang]

sounds like a lot of work 

a lot i don't know how to do lol

[ohgood]

mmm, pressing a stem into a doughnut of alu, into a triple sounds scary to me. making one steer stem with the right dimensions for the 'new' triples and the 'new' (gs) steer tube bearings would be waaay easier, and safer.

as far as cutting the threads- man, little stuff like a gs stem would be a breeze

[makenzie71]

I would so love that for my GS750...too bad I'm broke...but in the off chance, do you have the wheel as well?