Has anybody done, or does anybody have thoughts on swapping out the front end for something from another bike?

I can imagine stuffing, say, the 38mm fork tubes from a FZR 600 in the existing triple tree but I wonder if the fork tubes are far enough apart (or maybe too far!) to fit the FZR axle and the wheel and the dual disc brakes...

Alternatively I could replace the triple tree as well with something from another bike... then the tube diameter and axle length and all that wouldn't matter. I could even have upside-down forks, which I think would look cool, but I'd need to find a triple tree with a stem length and width --especially-- bearing diameter and angle that would be compatible with the LS650 neck tube.

I don't want to cut up my bike but I do want to make it more cafe-racer like. And I'd prefer to just bolt cheap stuff on that I buy on Ebay instead of custom machining parts.

Any ideas?

Chuck

That's something that I'd considered awhile back but decided not to. I wanted triple clamps with less offset that would also allow me to raise the forks some. Both changes would have sharpened the steering. Problem was, the forks would have hit the gas tank in turns, requiring me to move the tank back somehow & I ended up dropping the idea. It can be done though, somehow. I just didn't follow through.

Ducati forks:

http://www.savageriders.com/gallery/London.htm

You might look up the posts of LondonThing

I'm using 39mm TZR250 forks with a single 320mm disc on SR.



Clive W  

The pic that Clive put up with the front end was of his SR500 project bike.