Author Topic: Honda CB550 to Hayabusa front fork conversion  (Read 2076 times)

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Offline JAG

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Honda CB550 to Hayabusa front fork conversion
« on: January 14, 2009, 10:18:29 PM »
Assumingly for some sort of bobber project, just thought I'd post it here. This guy does does good work from what I seen from other projects with yamaha's..

http://www.thechopperunderground.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=32232&hl=justin

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Re: Honda CB550 to Hayabusa front fork conversion
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2009, 01:38:13 AM »
I don’t know! Is it just me, or is this so way more complicated than the many fork conversions that we’ve seen before? There is more machine time required to do that conversion than is economically feasible. My advice….find another fork assembly!
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Re: Honda CB550 to Hayabusa front fork conversion
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2009, 02:55:32 AM »

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Re: Honda CB550 to Hayabusa front fork conversion
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2009, 04:04:01 AM »
I don’t know! Is it just me, or is this so way more complicated than the many fork conversions that we’ve seen before? There is more machine time required to do that conversion than is economically feasible. My advice….find another fork assembly!

really?

Thats not too complicated.
Now the people I have seen posts of them MAKING their own tripple trees... thats going a bit overboard... but the bragging rights are awesome.


To each his own. 



I personally went with a '85 ninja 600 front end on a '81 cb650.
when I get it fully completed I will probably do a post on the mods needed to do what I did in detail.

Only another machinist of a lover of those forks would want to do it though....
If you aren't a machinist something like this would seem quite daunting I guess.
It's easy to take for granted personal skills I guess.(and access to a machine shop)



Good to know there are other mod options for front ends on these old SOHC's though.(even for the non-machinists out there)


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