Front end change sp1/2

[bumblee bee]

Hi folks

I am thinking of changing the front end on my firestorm for some up side down forks and i know the norm is to go for fireblade 929 or 954 forks but i was wondering if anyone had added any other bike's front end onto there bike, was wondering if an SP1/2 would go in easy enough.

Im not unkown to a set of spanner's but aint no mechanic, so looking for a bit of help from the more knowledgeable on here.

cheers

[tony.mon]

It's the length more than anything else, if you also adapt the donor bike's yokes to fit.
If the bearings can't be sourced to convert form one to the other, then you can always chop the stem off the Storm one and have it grafted onto the donor bottom yoke.

[blob748]

Hi, you can also try a cbr600fx/y front end, you may have to change the bearings but you can still keep your clipons on top of your yokes, plus the fork are 2mm bigger [43mm] and also have comression damping.
Med

[oldbikeman]

Google Mario Nava ,who has a SP1 front end fitted.Nice bikes too.

[blob748]

Hi missed the p out of compression damping sorry.

[bumblee bee]

excellent, thanks very much folk's i will look into those option's and se if they are poss or if to stick with the blade front end

cheers

[Jester666]

Google Mario Nava ,who has a SP1 front end fitted.Nice bikes too.

Lovely. I like the seatunits. Very neat.

http://web.tiscali.it/mario_nava/vtr1000_b_e.html