Fireblade forks setup and help please

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Stormin Ben
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Fireblade forks setup and help please

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Just in the process of fitting a set of standard Blade forks

Can anyone recommend base settings and also CHEAP mods?
Cheap as in different weight oil, springs are out of budget at the moment

Cheers

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Ben

I'll have a look later tonight as Racetech sent me its suggested sttings for standard Blade forks just before I got them revalved/resprung.
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Post by welshy »

Ben.

if you find them could you also send me the settings.

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Welshy :-)
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Ben/Welshy

Just had a look and the following are the settings i got off racetech for standard 96/97 blade forks:

For fast road riding:

Preload - 4 lines showing
Rebound - 1.5 turns out from fully seated
Compression - 1 turn out from fully seated

For track use:

Preload - 1 line showing
Rebound - 1 turn out from fully seated
Compression - 0.5 turn out from full in

Hope this helps lads.

If you want the settings i'm using for my blade forks with ohlins springs and racetech valves give me a shout.

Cheers[/u]
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Fireblade forks

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When you fit them check the steering stops on the bottom yolk mine are fouling the headlight /fairing bracket giving less steering lock and the pin won't engage on the lock itself! (hopefully fixing this today) The horn needs moving as well, all I done was drilled an 8mm hole in the horn bracket about halfway along its lengh then turned it the other way round with a few washers and a longer bolt to clear the lug on the bottom yolk!

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Re: Fireblade forks

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Cheers for that Warren.
The lock-stops are fine on mine.
I haven't refitted the fairing yet so I'll look out for the horn (ooh-err!!)
Also didn't have any problems with the steering lock, other than getting it off the old yokes!! (Still got a swollen black knuckle from that one)

Now all I've gotta do is get the new front tyre scrubbed in so I can test the forks properly (2 front slides while checking for travel on the brakes has put me of trying harder - YET!!) but the feeling from the new forks is noticeably better already - WOOHOO

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All solved :idea: Mine must have been from a different year Blade, filed a notch in the lugs on the bottom yolk and I had to lower the steering lock by 3mm, this was because I fitted taper roller bearings in the headstock and they are a bit deeper than std and move the yolks further apart :!:
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