I've just spent the last two days wearing out the tryres and my sliders riding my new purchase.
I recently picked up my third Firestorm, the first was a streetfighter which was great fun and the second a standard model with a few suspension mods (rear Nitron and forks upgraded by Revolution )
But then I came across a 99 Castrol rep on ebay. It has a Blade 929 front end and an Ohlins rear shock. I had to have it and what can I say - It's like a completely different bike. It handles like my '03 ZX6R, it's bloody awesome. I couldn't believe how good the bike feels totally planted mid corner, knee down everywhere. I now need to get myself booked on a track day before the summer (?) ends.
So, if anyone is thinking of upgrading their suspension I say go the whole hog and get a blade F.E , a quality rear shock and release your bikes true potential !
As you can see I'm quite pleased with my new acquisition !
J
Pic here: http://www.vtr1000.org/cpg/displayimage ... at=0&pos=0
USD Forks and Ohlins - Taste the difference
USD Forks and Ohlins - Taste the difference
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I've not done the conversion myself, but have spent sometime gathering info on this very conversion from different sites and from Alan on this forumvtrkarl wrote:hi did the blade front end fit straight in...were any other mods needed..ie brakes etc

I can tell you though that it's not a straight forward swap over. There is quite a bit involved to do this conversion


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If you use the search function and type in blade or forks then you should find loads of topics on this!vtrkarl wrote:hi did the blade front end fit straight in...were any other mods needed..ie brakes etc
(just wish i had the cash to do this mod, sounds great!)
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