Now that it's on the bike I like, but it was not a quick change out. Dropping the head of the frame by more than 4" demanded a lot of changes to other areas of of the bike. The saddle became a "ski ramp" & no way to stay off the frame tank until the rear came down to within an inch or the rear tire. That solved and it was time to adjust the bars up a lot 'cause to reach them required lying flat down on the tank, board racer style, looked pretty cool but no position for a 70 year old to ride in. Once the bars were up brake and clutch controls had to be adjusted the combination of these things required a shortening of all the cables (not yet accomplished). Then the engine had to be re positioned in the frame 'cause it had almost become a horizontal jug at that point, now with the motor back in a more vertical state the motor drive chain was too tight & a link had to be removed...which resulted in a change in rear axle/wheel position, which you guessed it caused the pedal side chain to loose and a half link was then required to bring some order back into my world. But wait the rear exhaust bracket wasn't long enough and a new one had to be fabricated as well. I won't go into my efforts to get the disk rotor and caliper to function with the billet fork/disk brake adapter that is advertised as "bolt on ready to easily convert virtually most any fork into a disc brake compatible setup".
As for the fork itself nothing but praise and bolted right up, but after that...wow!
Before the little silver bike had a motocross bike look and feel. Now looks a lot more vintage & feels sporty as heck. It was all worth it to me on both the bikes I just changed forks on. I will clean up the rat's nest of cables on both bikes as well, when I decide everything else is working properly. Rick C.
