84-89 KX500 handle bars down all the way to front wheel ... straight in ... yes will fit a savage.
Item/s you'd have to make/source - a neck spacer. Its steering stem is  ~ 1/4 inch too long. Yup, that's it, and yea its got 7/8th bars, you'd have to a slide1 inch over the grip area etc.
I am planning to string up the bike tommorow for rear tire fit. I'll take a pic or 10 ... but remember, mine has YZ250 legs and wheel and what ever ... that was all I found. The KX stuff shattered ... would have been so cool if I had KX, KX has double axle drop outs ... YZ has 1 ... and I have to fiddle with fork brake (yet to be fabbed up) if I wanna use it ... KX, take off 8 10 mm bolts and the whole wheel axle, disk etc fall out.
Yea, but the freaking wheel shattered the darn bearing area in it.
KX top triple will even take a riser set made for a harley and teh 1 inch bar ... I had to make nylon bushings ... but I can make some for~10 bucks a pair. For a spacer use a larger neck adjustment collar. Pics ... yea pics will show you. Yea, complete with dirt bike tire, make a small L bracket and head light goes on as well.
Cool.
Srinath.

As it is ~4-5 inches ... like along its legs to the ground. but its got ~6 inches of sag. You wanna keep that to~2 inches and preload or air pressure the rest. You also must make up a fork brace which will have to carry a fender too.
Cool.
Srinath.

How to put up pics ???
And yes best of luck - and yea I am also no where near it done.
Should I try that gallery you got.
Cool.
Srinath.

OK pics are here.
http://autos.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/Be_Savage/photos/browse/23f7

Cool.
Srinath.

srinath... for purposes of this discussion, I am hosting your pictures; which I downloaded from the Yahoo site. As mentioned, I could only look at them on Yahoo because I am on Yahoo, registered and logged in. To get your pictures to show here, I copied them to my server (also on Yahoo). But since my server space is a commercial paid for service, I can post pictures and let anyone look at them, or I can restrict them with a password at my choice. What you need to do in the future to post pictures here, is: upload your pictures to a free site like bikepics; or another which allows direct linking to the pictures (Yahoo Groups free hosting does not allow direct linking to photos they host).

Once uploaded to a site like bikepics, you just click the little picture icon at the top of the "post reply" box: fourth icon on the bottom row; then paste the URL from the location bar at the top of the browser window between the image tags. The image tags that tell the YABBC to put a picture into the message, will look like this: ]pic[ and ]/pic[ except the brackets will all be turned around the other way. I did them backwards so the board's software (YABB) wouldn't think I was actually trying to post a picture. Get it?

Anyways... I have server space and bandwidth to spare on my web site for now. So Here's your pictures:









Now, back to the discussion at hand:

I appreciate your showing those pics, because I have learned several things by just looking at them. First off, the trees don't have much "offset" (where the fork legs are forward of the stem/tube.) This of course will affect your whole steering geometry, as will having the leading axle: (where the axle is in front of the fork leg; instead of directly below it). Of course you are going to gain whatever extra length the new fork tubes provide, and you will be able to just put a street tire on it, and run it as-is. But those dirt bike trees aren't very pretty if someone is wanting a longer front end for their street bike/chopper. I'd still just recommend some 4" longer tubes from Frank's for a couple hundred dollars.

However, in order to make the suspension work as I might if trying to make a "street tracker" or dual sport Savage, your pictures have brought home to me the fact: that to really raise the bike up; get ground clearance, and have acceptable steering, it would be necessary to take -5º or more rake away from the fork tube angle.

Yeah, the 5º I mentioned was 5º LESS: If, as I've considered, building a dual purpose Savage. If you're sticking to the street, I would keep the 35º but not add any rake. As for the "squish" I'm guessing that you know that you can just put spacers in on top of the fork springs, and pre-load them more. There's just a limit to how much you can pre-load them before you have no floating travel, and they'll top out all the time. But basically, I think your setup looks cool, and is a cheap work around to the too-expensive chopper kits. All that extra travel should make it ride nice and soft too!

Are you going to keep the 21" front wheel, or go back to a 19?"

Tell me that, and I can give you a rough guesstimate of what your trail aspect will be like. That is one reason the dirt bikes went to the leading axle setup years ago: to get the trail figures back into a tolerable measurement. That way dirt bikes can have a steep rake angle for quick turning, and still have enough trail to be able to steer in a straight line.

Okay, that is exactly the extension I am looking for for the FireLizard. Now I know what I am looking for and when I get a chance I will be going up to the guy I got my tank from and see what he has.

But before I decide on a dirtbike front end, I will taking a tape measure and see if he has any longer forks of the correct diameter that will just swap right into the Savage triple trees.