A bit more progress over the overly long winter months. All painted up with a few things left to do. And the new front end fitted:
You obviously know way more than I, but could you run those forks for longer than the rebuild duty cycle time? Are they so sensitive that its essential or can they be used for longer?
Tell us more please Did they fit into the yokes without modification? Are they the showa sbk forks like on the zx10r?
Surely the bottoms cost more than the forks they’re fitted on? If you could fit those bottoms off the zx10r sbk forks into stock stanchions that would be awesome.
Hate to disappoint you but nothing misleading going here. The only things left from the base showa are the inner and outer tubes and the top adjusters.
I love it excellent wouldnt thought of that, love those bottoms, excellent. can you give me a program for the 5 axis workstation Fanuc control I couldnt get the ones I made with a hacksaw and file to look right admire your spirit
A few things to say. First. BIG hello airduck, missed you and time to catch up. Second. To 2moto. Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. Looks like my intake setup I did for my bike 4 years ago. Third. A mildly worked 1098 won’t put out the hp you have. Period. 1198 maybe. You need to check it on a dyno that has have a few 1098 runs and compare. Never mind you don’t have a before for that engine. You are comparing like for like. To do 190mph I can assume you run it to 10500 redline and if you do final gearing will be 15/34. Correct? Fourth. Love the fork lowers, they are superb. Doesn’t matter that they are on a base fork. Priced correctly you could sell a few.
He did say replica. To me that means copy of the real thing. How is that misleading? He has done a superb job, it sounds like you want to pull him down.
Yeah, grumpy. Looks cool to me Must say though, I'd have gone the extra yard and dropped a 1098R lump in there. If you could find one that is...
Not at all. If you took time to read his content and reply about the forks being Ohlins FGR, he doesnt really set the poster about them straight. Thats where I saw deception. I wasnt questioning the whole bike being a replica, although it is more a homage in my eyes. I appreciate the work that has been done, just seems a shame to try and pull the wool to what he has done.