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Check it, Are these the ones that most people swap on to their GS's I might be interested if they work well and are fairly easy swap.

Those are the ones.  You just need to freshen them up and add...

Modified steering stem.  
Master cylinder (any 16mm or 5/8 bore)
Brake lines
Calipers and bolts
2 Rotors and 5 extra rotor bolts.
reflectors (ok, probably live without these)

would the stock wheel not bolt right up?

oh, and is this modification really worth it? ridewise?

Wheel does, not the axle, you need katana's axle.
The 5 parts you need. Brakes, axle, legs, triples and clip on's.
You mod a few others, like the headlight ears and stem, and upper triple if you want to run gauges.
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Buddha.

Quote from: glynnd89 on October 16, 2009, 06:46:12 PM
oh, and is this modification really worth it? ridewise?

Yes and no. The largest pay off is in longer wear for disks and calipers and not as much flex or under braking. Plus seals etc last longer cos a Kat leg is better quality. On a street bike that is.

I think if you need to do seals, have disk and pads that are almost dead, its cheaper to mod especially if you get hold of a good leg set and get brakes with most life left.

There was 1 I did ~2 years ago. His leg had bad seals, and disk was shot. Even more importantly, the guy managed to ell his legs to someone else for 50 bucks. The kat mod in his case was break even with the seal and disk and pads he had to get.

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Buddha.

Heard Understood And Acknowledged.  Buddha, you're a lot of help on here and would like to open the floor for discussion on knighting you... If I had the authority I would do it. HAHA.  I just can't stop thinking mods and performance, weekend projects.  I'm just afraid I am going to do something and find I dont like it after I do it and buying the parts was a waste and a hassle to get my money back out of them.  I recently had to replace the Front cowl and fairings.  I was ordering parts through the dealer because they were easiest to deal with on my time frame and I assumed their knowledge would rival knowledge here on OEM parts.  Boy was I wrong.  The younger man I was dealing with assured me the body parts would come with the decals already placed, they didn't, he then told me I would have to order sets of decals for each piece, I.E. left side, right side, and front, when the parts came in, (from the dealer) I got three sets of the exact same decals, and one pack was a whole set for my bike.  They are returning the parts as soon as I can get them there, but jeesh, cut a guy a break.  I'm flat tired of dealing with insurance and banks, thankfully the bike has been restored to purchase condition, plus some performance mods, (benefits of bike being stolen and backed into within 12 hours of eachother).  It looks great runs great.  and everyone here has been great help with ideas to make the bike more than what it was when i bought it.  Thanks alot.

The dealer clowns call me when there is a hard problem show up on a GS, savage, SV, or pretty much any old school bike. One guy even called me on a scooter crapping out at wfo.
I didn't connect his probelm to the issue, honda told him wha tthe issue was, he tells me and I go, yea, collapsing intake manifold boot. They went from smooth to ribbed (for her pleasure of course) on the 86-87 savage for that reason. You can see it go out of shape when you rev it. That guy just went ...  ... more like jaw dropping not eek.

Bleeh ... though I do like some of the recent knights - Sir Anthony Hopkins my favorite.

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Buddha.

just send budduh some skunk beer
his fav is schitz malt licker

Quote from: werase643 on October 17, 2009, 05:26:26 PM
just send budduh some skunk beer
his fav is schitz malt licker

Clowno ... you cannot mail beer. Some thing about transporting across state lines or mailing liquid bs, though I have seen maple syrup mailed out ... 

Skunk is when unemployed. And even so, favorite is steel 8.1 ... bleeeh ... but its not avl in a case.

Employed beer is Hefeweizen.
And again, cant mail beer.

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Buddha.

i've mailed live worms. and fish. that's pretty close to the domestic's flavors HA

Quote from: ohgood on October 17, 2009, 07:31:15 PM
i've mailed live worms. and fish. that's pretty close to the domestic's flavors HA

Why would you insult the flavor of a fish by comparing it to domestic beer?

Going with the Reserve?  That stuff is rough first drink to last drink of the night....  Never ever ever again.  A buddy and mine split 12 of them once.  Took us 3 months to finally finish them all. 

IPA via UPS?

IPA FTW!

Quote from: glynnd89 on October 16, 2009, 05:58:04 PM
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Check it, Are these the ones that most people swap on to their GS's I might be interested if they work well and are fairly easy swap.

There's a Buddha modified steering stem in the for sale section.  It makes bolting these forks onto your GS much easier. 

http://gstwins.com/gsboard/index.php?topic=50513.0

what would I have to do to the headlight ears? and if i just kept it with one rotor would i need to get a master cylinder still? Project could be a little over my head even with that stem.
I am still just processing my options.

On the 89-02 bike, I modify the headlight ears to take the stock grommets and fit on the 41mm. The trick is to get the grommets lubed up slick like Ryan Seacrests hair and fit the lower ones on, then get the ears on the thing and slide em down, then as the top is about to go on, get the grommet under it and slide it on. The one part of the mod I hated the most, is this. Of course if it tears, you're going to have to buy a GS1100G or a similar 41mm headlight carrier grommet.
You can also dip your ears in tool handle rubberising dip and get it on with some extra 2 sided tape or what not on the tubes, but dunno if it may come loose later.
There is work fitting the front end's on, but there is no mystery. So many of us have done it, its the Pamela Anderson of front end swaps.
Of course on an 04+ there is no headlight ears.

I'll mod em for 25 bucks but really a muffler shop should be able to just as well. Then just patiently grind it smooth and round.

I have 2 stems I have machined, that I am going to use, but that probably will be it. I had more trouble with stems this time around than ever so far. I am going to figure a different way to do it or well, dont need any more, I have swapped em on everythign that has a wheel at this point.

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Buddha.

yup, every one of them will snap right before they are the correct diameter
weld them back together and grind off the ugly
also can cut the rubber dohickey and slide them on easier

The failure rate is not 100%, its closer to 50. The part usually will get thin before it snaps. What you do is put it on an aluminum or copper plate and weld the gap like a bridge. Then yea grind.
Grommet - if its going to break, let it break, I am yet to have one break though. Cutting it is like breaking it, except well ... its 100% breakage rate. Meeeh ...
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