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[tt_four]

Moemoney: That's a good guess, but it wouldn't be because of a brace. The GS has a brake because the forks are like spaghetti noodles, but the gsxr forks are way stiffer and don't need a brace. They no longer come with fork braces.

cboling: This is actually the first set I found on ebay... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230475870116&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT
I'm sure the price will go up, but I figure it's worth watching. Like I said, most of the swaps I've seen have been from K model gsxrs, and I'm fine with anything from the 90's as long as their USD and a lot stiffer than the GS forks. I eventually need to piece it all together and try to think of everything. Even if I got a good deal on the forks and a wheel, I still need to take into account all the parts I need, like brakes, rotors, front tire, clipons a gs stem and pay bob to press it in(unless I can figure it out). I'd need a GS brake lever I'm sure. I can picture it adding up fast, and most of the swaps I've seen have been $5-600, which is more than I think I'd care for.

Currently my motorcycle fund has been built off of bicycle stuff I've been selling, and then I get a 3rd paycheck in July so I'm hoping to grab that. Otherwise I'm not trying to mess with normal funds. I think if I did a fork swap I'd have to try to budget it into the normal money, so I'll see what I can do. My wife brought home a $180 pot the other weekend, I guess I can try to use that as leverage. I didn't even know pots that expensive existed, and it was even on sale, haha. There's a bike salvage yard by my parents house, it may be worth a stop over there, who knows what they'd charge for an entire front end.

The reason I've been riding the GS now is because I decided I wanted to buy a new bike last spring, and in the mean time I figured we'd pull my wife's bike out of storage in her parents shed to ride temporarily. It had been sitting there for 4 years. Once I get another bike I really won't be riding this one much. I'm hoping I can just lower it and she'll ride with me again. I don't think she's horribly interested in it now, but she might after I've been riding it more. The two reasons I'm unsure about the venture, is because 1, if I get another bike, and she doesn't want to ride this one, and I eventually want to sell it, it will have been a lot of time and money put into it for not much. I'll hopefully have another bike before I even collect all the parts for the swap, so who knows what my motivation would be after that, and 2nd.... Whatever bike I get is just going to be for fun. I've had bikes for transportation, and put 10k miles on them a year, and that's fine, but whatever I get I would like to last me 10-15 years of nice evening/weekend rides. Someday when I move out of the city and need something to actually commute on daily, I'll not want to ride my good bike daily and wear it out, so I'll hopefully be able to use that as my excuse to pick up another bike, just a sv650/gsxr600/750 or something. That'll be hard if I still have the GS, as leverage is out the window. On the plus side, if I fix the GS up super well, maybe I can someday trade it to someone for a better bike that's been crashed or just in need of some serious love, trade of a great GS for a not so great gsxr/cbr, something like that. Either way, I've done some work to my bike already with the half assed tail swap, that'll eventually be cleaned up, and plenty of other stuff, but if I ever actually put on new forks, it would definitely push me over the limit to say I needed to really clean up everything well, like cut and reweld my subframe so my tail fits perfect, wider back wheel, weld on a better exhaust, all kinds of stuff, so it'd be a serious project. Who knows.

That is my essay for the night.

[dgyver]

tt_four... if you do get a set of GSXR forks, I have a turned 99 GSXR stem to fit a GS. I moved the forks to my SV and will not be going back. Also, I think I still have an extra front wheel.

[tt_four]

Sounds good, I'll definitely keep it in mind. I didn't win that last set that was on ebay, but if I do find a front end some day I'm sure it'll be from that time range.