Single sided S/A USD forks

fieldy375 · Post by **fieldy375** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:28 pm

Hello does any one know which single sided swing arm fits straight on a 98 firestorm, and which usd forks fit straight on. thanks for any info

beckster · Post by **beckster** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:09 pm

Hello there,for the forks you need fireblade 929 '00-'01 usd's and the yolks to match,basically the whole front end(yolks,forks,front wheel,brake,axle calipers,mud guard).You will also need a set of clip-ons which have a rise of about 3 inches as the firestorm ones fit on top of its yolk giving you clearance of the fairing but the fireblade clip-ons sit under its yolk which will foul the fairing.The yolk will slot straight in but the steering lock will need adjustment.

For the swing arm you will need a vfr 800 and its rear wheel and caliper.I haven't done this mod myself but alan has and he would be able to give you all the details.

Hope this is of some help

alan · Post by **alan** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:40 pm

High Fieldy as Beckster said its a vfr800 swingarm complete assembly with further mods to be made (rear cylinder exhaust rerouted and original headers slightly altered,shock mount to be moved,offset front sprocket, to line chain up and new shock linkage plates made (drawing available)

You have a choice of wheels either the vfr800 5 spoke or the 750 8 spoke,i have both at the min.

Or you could go for something really special like Ducati wheels like Daz Sear's (aka Stormsmasher) conversion (this will require a mod to the hub assembly to take the Duke wheels,Daz is the person to talk to about this.

As far as usd forks there is a few options 929/954 as Beckster and i have gone for or sp1,gsxr 1000/750/cbr 1000rr.

hope this helps

Alan

fieldy375 · Post by **fieldy375** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:57 pm

Well cheers guys are these parts easy to find, just wanting to convert this winter and needed to know what parts to get through the summer, Once again thanks for the help

KarlosVTR · Post by **KarlosVTR** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:11 pm

alan, if you have the drawings, could you send them to me so i can model them up and draft them up as an engineering drawing?

i dont wanna steal any thunder from you, i just want to start modelling bike bits again instead of oilfield tools

Post by **kevg** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:36 pm

Sounds like your doing a similar job to me Karlos, i've been working in aberdeen for 11 months designing equipment for the rigs.

alan · Post by **alan** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:58 pm

Hi Karl pm me your email addy,the linkage plates are already drawn up i'll send you the draft

alan · Post by **alan** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:59 pm

fieldy375 wrote:Well cheers guys are these parts easy to find, just wanting to convert this winter and needed to know what parts to get through the summer, Once again thanks for the help

Ebay is a good place to start and just siv through the sh1t.

mik_str · Post by **mik_str** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:10 pm

In terms of the forks, apparently the SP-1/SP-2 units are the best ones to use as they are the samel length as the stock units. There is a wealth of info on this topic on the US superhawkforum.com site. Do a search and enjoy

cheers from snowy Canada

fieldy375 · Post by **fieldy375** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:26 pm

Cheers for that never thought of the sp1 that should go straight on same as blade. eh

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