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Armen Serious Thumper Offline Half-Witted Wrench-Jockey from Jersey Posts: 1432	Fork braces 11/15/16 at 17:38:13 After waiting months for a Superbrace (backordered), I gave up and order a TKAT. It was shipped in no time. Good news is that the TKAT exists, is well made, and cheaper than the Superbrace. Bad news, it looks a bit 'industrial'. Decided to give it a little love. This is the before pic:
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Armen Serious Thumper Offline Half-Witted Wrench-Jockey from Jersey Posts: 1432	Re: Fork braces Reply #1 - 11/15/16 at 17:38:50 The 'after' pic:
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Armen Serious Thumper Offline Half-Witted Wrench-Jockey from Jersey Posts: 1432	Re: Fork braces Reply #2 - 11/15/16 at 17:40:42 A little metal removed with files, 1" and 1/2" hand belt sander, stationary belt sander, sand paper of various grits, green scrubbies, and more time than I'll admit to
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Fork braces Reply #3 - 11/15/16 at 18:02:40 What? No extra holes?
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Armen Serious Thumper Offline Half-Witted Wrench-Jockey from Jersey Posts: 1432	Re: Fork braces Reply #4 - 11/15/16 at 18:05:42 The underside is already relived quite a bit
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Fork braces Reply #5 - 11/15/16 at 18:07:03 The "after" shot is much better.
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Srotag Full Member Offline Have Thumper Will Travel Posts: 100 Wherever it is warm and sunny Gender:	Re: Fork braces Reply #6 - 11/15/16 at 18:08:48 Very nice work..
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Armen Serious Thumper Offline Half-Witted Wrench-Jockey from Jersey Posts: 1432	Re: Fork braces Reply #7 - 11/15/16 at 19:03:12 Thanks
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Re: Fork braces
Reply #8 - 11/16/16 at 06:40:06

Armen,
I am happy with my tkat as well. I did the same cleaning with mine, but not quite as aggressive. My bike being black and silver, I wanted it to all look nice and shiny. I mainly used degreaser,a scrubby pad and some never-dull polish.

I also figured out a way to keep my fork protectors intact. explanation at the tail end of this post/thread: http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1471017987 See pic. This is an older pic so it is not as nice and shiny as it originally was. Wink

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norm92de Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1180 El Paso TX Gender:	Re: Fork braces Reply #9 - 11/16/16 at 10:21:58 It looks like you both did quite a bit of work making it pretty. Nice work. They look much better than as delivered.
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Offline Thumpers Rule Posts: 4997 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Fork braces Reply #10 - 11/16/16 at 12:27:55 Very nice Armen
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Armen Serious Thumper Offline Half-Witted Wrench-Jockey from Jersey Posts: 1432	Re: Fork braces Reply #11 - 11/16/16 at 13:40:44 Thanks
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