einheit13 wrote on 10/27/10 at 14:55:24:Thats a girder, not a springer on ebay. You'll need to know the stock length of your front end from the bottom tree to the center of the front axle and order accordingly unless you plan on raking out the frame. Then you get to make up the spacers, axles, and stem/bearing set up for the neck. not hard at all. A Girder doesn't flex as bad as a springer will. If you rake it out with a springer, you will notice a 'bounce' in the front end because the lower legs are always under compression and will 'load and unload' with just about any bump in the road. A girder pivots at the neck and and has both legs welded together that makes it very rigid, but if you hot rod in the twisties, it can 'skip' in the harder curves.
A girder will 'pogo-stick' as well but not near as bad as a true springer. I know this as the bike on ebay is mine. It wasn't very difficult to install it. In fact I believe I still have the instructions posted in the tech/ref section. Let me look right quick (pausing to look) Yep, found it.
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1213856449. Instruction ain't very good I'm affraid and no in progress pics because it wasn't until after I got it installed that I remembered and I sure as heck wasn't gonna tear it back down just to get pics.