Okay, just looking to see if anyone has done anything like this.
I purchased a CB350F for a city bike in San Francisco. After riding a 400F around for a while, I realized the front suspension blows. I'm going to buy progressive springs and improved modulators from a company in SoCal, but I was thinking about stiffening up the forks at the axle. My plan goes like this:
1) Machine new triple trees with ~5mm extra spacing between fork centers (i know, expensive, but what the hell)
2) machine new axle with 2.5mm thick flanges at the widest diameter that will still contact the fork legs on INSIDE of fork locations
3) Machine flats on outside of forks
4) Drill and tap holes on both ends of axle
5) mount entire assembly up with large shoulder bolts fastening the lower fork legs to the axle to provide a clamping force to brace the axle
The parts are represented as this (excuse the silly use of text):
axle: -l---------l-
bolt: l- -l
fork: llll
The assembly will look roughly like this:
l=l---------l=l
llll llll
llll llll
llll llll
llll llll
The goal here is to clamp the fork legs securely to the axle so that they cannot rotate or slide around under load. Fox shocks recently did an iteration of this on their mountain bike set-ups that provided larger clamping surfaces for the fork legs and the difference was AMAZING. Heck, the larger clamping area model provided a more stable system than the smaller clamping area did with the addition of a fork brace. Since these motorcycles don't have any lateral clamping force to begin with, I figure it might be beneficial. Any thoughts are appreciated.
Camelman
