Enhance your calm,buddy    The closeup pic of the FE at lock doesnt really show if it was touching or not. Looks good. Hope you sell it but alot of us ride GSes because their pretty cheap to be had and maintain. Good luck with the sell.

I should have this all together soon so i'll have better pictures for you...

Just need it to get warm!


Peace, Bob!

Million mistakes including what I said. I didnlt say it will not weld easily, I only said it should't be welded to.
There is a reason they dont weld to aluminum things that take shock and more importantly, its not aluminum ... its cast aluminum, it can be any damn thing - aluminum based mystery metal.
Gone are the missing caliper the missing steering locks ... maybe people buy from me cos I dunno, they like all of that.
Ooooo you have compresison damping ... Ooooooo ...
Guess you dont need the brake system then. O I forgot, 1 disk cos its lighter.
The spacer well beautiful pics - I should give you that ... but ... but ... but ... where is the dust cover ... bearings need that to be protected from the elements.
I have yanked front ends off bikes that had been lying face down in the dirt for years. Rusty fork legs among other things, only to find intact - great bearings and stem. The dust seal, very very vital to save both the upper and lower bearings.
Maybe people like their bearings to I dunno ... not rust.

One more time for the hard of comprehension ... I am not selling a front end, and I have only sold 2 ever almost a year ago to GSTwin people (active) and I am not selling one now.

No kool-aid, no selling nothing. I machine your stem. I have done several of that.
I make carriers ears for your triple to run guages. Get that ... nothing to sell. Dont need to ship big heavy parts to 100 different places.
Cool.
Buddha.

Oh I forgot - Dgyver and werase taught me how to do FE swaps less than 2 years ago. I have seen some of their spacer fitted FE's and all I can say is, they are works of art, and most importantly they still have that dust seal. You cut the spacer to the same profile as the lock nut and drop that under that lock nut.

Even for a race bike, this is a pretty sloppy swap, yes I know you bought it that way, sorry I dont mean to say you are doing a sloppy job.

My lap top has either been hit with a virus or I have a bad keyboard controller, I cant interject inside your post with quoted text and essentially I barely can post.
Cool.
Buddha.

Quote from: Big Shot on April 01, 2009, 04:57:24 PM

Quote from: average on April 01, 2009, 04:25:56 PM
Cant tell but are the bars touching the tank in that pic?

Nope.  My hand can be on the throttle and move it through it's rotation without any interference from the tank with the bars at full lock in this picture.  It's tight, but comfortable.  And wouldn't smash the hands if accidentally swung into this postilion.  If the bars needed to be swept back more, new steering stops would need to be made to prevent the bars from turning so far.  No big deal.  And i plan to do it.  If no one buys this from me first.

The lower triple is aluminum.  Buddha has said that it will not weld easily.  I guess we'll find out 


Bob!

P.S.  Poor Average, i guess his momma never called him Special! 

Try this with a 01 and later tank(fatter), and if that still doesn't hit, try it with an 04 + model with fairing.
With 04+ atleast you have the headlight problem solved.
Cool.
Buddha.

Just mocking it up right now Buddha, but thanks for sharing about how vital the dust cover is.

Have that.

If there is anything else you see wrong along the way please feel free to share...


Thanks, Bob!

How do i mount the clip-ons above the top triple you ask?  Two ways to do it.  First way, remove the spacer and narrow the stem another inch or so down to allow the top triple to sit essentially where the clip-ons are now.  Second way, remove the spacer and open up the the stem hole in the top triple to allow it to sit essentially where the clip-ons are now.  Both ways would leave about a 1 1/2" stem sitting above the top triple.  You can cut it down some, but then you'd only be able to use the clip-ons above the top triple or go another inch below the point they are at now.  Whoever owns this FE can decide for themselves what works for them.  Personally, i prefer flexibility.  At least until i decide that one way is so much better for me than the other.  At that point, i guess it would get chopped.  Or not.

Just in case this isn't clear.  The spacer is just taking up space.  No chit right?  Point is, if it was removed right now, the top triple would still be sitting in the same place.  The top triple is as far down on the stem as it can go without one of the two mods i explained above.  Hope this helps...


Something else that i find very interesting, if it is modded one of these two ways, the steering lock would line up more or less perfectly.

No need for the 7/8" long spacers on the ignition/key lock i talked about earlier in this thread.

Just something to consider...


Peace, Bob!

The clip on screws to the underside of the triple like on my sv. Its not meant to stay in place by the tightning of the pinch bolt. I wont try to run it on top cos that way it wont bolt in unless you drilled and tapped that threaded hole in the right location, which again I wont do if I were you.
Under is fine, that was how it was intended. I'd go with the way it wants to work you know.
Cool.
Buddha.

Quote from: werase643 on April 01, 2009, 03:04:43 PM
big shot didn't try to push the item until he started getting bashed by josh and Budduh

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this post need to go to the TF..... it is that bad

WELCOME TO GS TWIN.......FUC* YOU ...... the borg(collective twinners) is/are better than you......ya'll come back for more love and sunshine


and we wonder why people leave???

Thread dumping isn't prohibited, its just frowned upon.

And sites that prohibit it effectively are much worse.
This happens a lot on those sites - I am on 2-3 of them ... I see it all the time.

You post part X priced Y.
Someone just happens to reply to a thread form the past where someone was selling X+ for Y-
OR
Someone posts this X+ for Y- cos your post reminded them.
OR
Someone posts X+ for Y- off fleabay/craigslist/shamoo whatever. Worse yet its not even a buy it now. It can end up at 2-3 times your Y.
The reason its bad - there is no exchange of ideas, no debate no nothing. Just noise adding to the confusion.
Here atleast there was some idea of what is going on.
People post crap in others for sale threads all the time. Maybe that actually helps - in one way atleast.
Cool.
Buddha.

at least ya'll are having a constructive conversation now


there are NO aftermarket bars with that little screw hole you talk about

not important

it is used to align the h-bars quickly at the factory

Aftermarket bars atleast for my SV have a much better pinching mechanism.
The screw hole - leave that screw out and the SV bars will never stop spinning on the fork legs and these will prolly be worse. SV has offset up.
There is only so many times you can tighten and loosen cast crap handlebar collar before it gives up and dies, or you lose the threads in it.
Aftermarket ones are made from better aluminum and have better bolts (one O bought from R'gal for that sv has a Tbolt with nut) All steel in a billet housing
The SV does not even have a screw Just a little peg. If it does not rotate it wont slide down the leg.
Cool.
Buddha.

budduh
we take that bolt out for racing
in a lowside.....the h-bar will tap the frame and not break on impact
so you can jump up and yank it back and get back to the pits

and on a street bike ya want it to break so you will buy a new one from suzuki

Oh OK, so it does spin. Well that's the idea ...
Cool.
Buddha.

Remember werase you suggested that I make those block based clip on's with a through drilled version and I said that they are spinning, and you said that yea you have to have them bolted in to the triples ... many years ago, may have been the first or second time I came to your house ...

Anyway SV clip on's will spin unless they are pegged into the underside of the triple. The peg is tight but its fairly small and it cannot prevent it from sliding down, straight down ... only, cannot rotate. However the thing cannot slide if it cannot rotate and that is just about right to keep in place. I may try emblem tape on the leg and inside the clamp on collar, that may keep it from sliding or spinning.
Cool.
Buddha.

Update! - Mini...


Speddo drive from the GS isn't compatible with the GSXR front rim/axle.  It's too small.


I was able to take it for a spin around the block a couple of times today which was fun.  (Too cold for anymore)

No Front brake hooked up.  (Overrated anyway)

No dust cap on neck.  (Buddha unapproved)

No headlight hooked up.  (I drive faster then the speed of light so it doesn't do me much good anyhow)

No gauges hooked up.  (Fast and stop.  It's the only two speeds i know and i don't need any stinking gauges to tell me which one i'm in)

No ignition lock hooked up.  (I got to hot wire my own bike!  Almost as fun as the real thing )


Even though my ride today was short, it was enough to make me appreciate this FE even more.  I liked it when it was just sitting on the center stand in the garage, and now i'm beginning to fall in love with it.  Which i was afraid of because it means that i just might not want to sell it like i intended...

I commented earlier that i liked the feel of this FE's clip-ons and hated the 89 GS set.  Still do.  What makes these different?  The extra reach.  It seems counter intuitive that the farther reach would feel more comfortable than a shorter one but in this case it's true.  I'm 6'1" and the 89 GS set put me into no mans land.  Too far forward to feel comfortable, but not far enough either.

Everyone around my height who complains that their legs are a little cramped should be able to understand what i mean.  I know i wished for another inch or two between the seat and the foot pegs because i feel just a little cramped while sitting on the bike.  It's not terrible, and as soon as i'm in motion i forget all about it, but if you have me sit still on a parked GS all day i'll be wishing for a little more leg room.


89 GS set  = (The legroom issue i have with the bike)

GSXR FE with clip-ons sitting under the top triple  = (As if i just got the extra inch or two of legroom i wanted...  IT JUST FEELS GOOD!)


- Bob!