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WD Serious Thumper 2005 No Login Offline Professional "scooter trash". Posts: 5207 Rosemark TN Gender:	Re: extended forks options? & how to swap em? Reply #30 - 05/06/14 at 21:13:20 Dump the rear shocks and I'd ride that one. Really want a blacked out -4 Springer for my 98 with the FL rear fender and planned rigid frame conversion. Just have to find one spec'd for drum front wheel with 5/8" axle.
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Reply #31 - 05/07/14 at 04:13:34

WD wrote on 05/06/14 at 21:13:20:

Dump the rear shocks and I'd ride that one. Really want a blacked out -4 Springer for my 98 with the FL rear fender and planned rigid frame conversion. Just have to find one spec'd for drum front wheel with 5/8" axle.

That would be bad as hell, I want to see pics if you do it. I may even go that way myself.

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Reply #32 - 05/23/15 at 08:14:50

Can you use tubes more than +4 with the stock equipement? how much more front end ground clearance does it give you? 2 and a half inches at +4s? i want to do + 4s at least from franks for two reasons. One i have a voodoo vintage hard tail on my savage and im basically dragging frame now. Also i like the look of it stretched out a little more.

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Blade Full Member Offline Posts: 135 Sydney Australia Gender:	Re: extended forks options? & how to swap em? Reply #33 - 09/25/15 at 22:54:29 Srinath, Would you be interested in having another set of triple trees made from your design and selling them? I would be very interested in a set. Blade
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maleyfarm YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 9	Re: extended forks options? & how to swap em? Reply #34 - 10/10/15 at 14:26:36 so your wanting something like this?
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maleyfarm YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 9	Re: extended forks options? & how to swap em? Reply #35 - 10/10/15 at 14:48:06 my next step is raising my tank and 2 inch taller risers with no pull back
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18096 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: extended forks options? & how to swap em? Reply #36 - 10/10/15 at 17:54:05 maleyfarm wrote on 10/10/15 at 14:26:36: so your wanting something like this? No...not like that! That looks like an accident waiting to happen. Stop it - your scaring me.
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Reply #37 - 10/10/15 at 22:24:21

Sometimes I wait to do something, sometimes I prepare to do something. That doesn't look like waiting to me.

If you found a piece of pipe that fit tight inside the joint , and let it extend both ways about two inches, then I wouldn't cringe so bad looking at that. IMO, the tubes are stressed already, and even if the connection is buttressed internally, that is a shady setup. I hope it doesn't let you down.
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18096 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: extended forks options? & how to swap em? Reply #38 - 10/11/15 at 04:10:10 It look to me like they installed a socket on the hex head of the cap, and welded the socket to the cap.....then screwed the cap down into the fork leg. I don't know what they did at the top to put a bolt down through drive end of the socket.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: extended forks options? & how to swap em? Reply #39 - 10/11/15 at 15:56:46 Okay, I see it, it doesn't look so spooky now.
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Reply #40 - 10/12/15 at 04:03:59

if you click this link you can see pretty much what I built but they don't make them for Suzuki savages.
http://www.bikercom.com/shop/index.php?page=pp_productos.php&tipo=1&md=1&ref=58

I've put over 4000 miles on the bike since I did this, this spring. no problems but it does handle different at slow speeds. my last bike was a Honda vlx that had the same homemade setup that I put over 20,xxx miles on (also hade homemade rigid kit) with no issues.
to each his own and modifiying a bike is up to the owner and I take no responsiblilty for anyone who copies this. but I know if I have to spend $2000-$3000 for a different front end I'd just buy a new bike that was easier to modify.

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Gary_in_NJ Serious Thumper Offline LS650 Cafe Racer Posts: 2633 Amongst the Twisty Roads	Re: extended forks options? & how to swap em? Reply #41 - 10/12/15 at 09:15:30 maleyfarm wrote on 10/10/15 at 14:26:36: so your wanting something like this? Holy crap, is that a welded-on socket?
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18096 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: extended forks options? & how to swap em? Reply #42 - 10/12/15 at 09:21:55 Yep....scary ain't it! How thick (thin) are the tube walls where that cap threads in?
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Reply #43 - 10/12/15 at 09:22:29

Dave wrote on 10/11/15 at 04:10:10:

It look to me like they installed a socket on the hex head of the cap, and welded the socket to the cap.....then screwed the cap down into the fork leg. I don't know what they did at the top to put a bolt down through drive end of the socket.

I SAW , yet didn't see, it didn't click, I Saw the etched in size on the socket,, and just totally failed to grasp until Dave, good ole Gold Star Dave, once again, points out the detail..

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Reply #44 - 10/12/15 at 11:50:57

Dave wrote on 10/12/15 at 09:21:55:

Yep....scary ain't it!

How thick (thin) are the tube walls where that cap threads in?

The tube walls are probably somewhere around 0.062". They are supported by the mass of the upper t-clamp. Still, that's not a good looking weld AND a socket isn't designed to take the types of loads that a fork tube sees. AND (yes, that's a second capitalized "and") it's not supported by the upper t-clamp; all of the twisting load is placed right on that crappy weld.

Isn't the purpose of an extend fork to...well...extend the fork so the front is "raked-out"?. This welded socket kind of defeats the purpose.

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