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    Quote Originally Posted by Voltaire View Post
    My 53 Thunderbird has a very poor 7" SLS front brake.
    Its hard to look like Marlon Brando when you can't stop.....
    Research has led me to getting some self aligning shoes to replace the pivot type.
    I was down at the local brake shop and there was a Speed Twin wheel identical waiting for 'Brake Arcing"
    I think if it improved the brake its probably worth a punt.
    Do they use a machine?
    If you want to keep it stock - there's plenty of suggestion beem made .. and you just have to learn to ride with shit brakes.

    Back then we all tried to replace the front wheel with one of these .. Triumph Conical Hub ..

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    Twin leading shoe - instead of single, air cooled. From an early 70s Bonnie

    Or this variant - from a '68

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    Quote Originally Posted by husaberg View Post
    I thought the max legs would be far thicker walled than the TZ ones?
    Actually all of them would be i guess.
    Not massively, but I needed longer legs to get rake and trail back (I needed extra 30mm or so) and I was fitting cartridge conversion anyway so they existing damper rod spring etc was being ditched so didn't matter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Voltaire View Post
    My 53 Thunderbird has a very poor 7" SLS front brake.
    Its hard to look like Marlon Brando when you can't stop.....
    Research has led me to getting some self aligning shoes to replace the pivot type.
    I was down at the local brake shop and there was a Speed Twin wheel identical waiting for 'Brake Arcing"
    I think if it improved the brake its probably worth a punt.
    Do they use a machine?
    One quick question ... do you use the rear brake much or only/mostly the front one?

    When I rode older British bikes I used the rear and front together .. and possibly relied more on the rear than the front. The bike stopped OK - and I survived a few occasions when I needed to stop rapidly .. The rear is still a 7"SLS ... but it does increase the stopping power.

    When I got modern Japanese bikes, it took me a long time to stop using the rear brake all the time.

    It was braking that caught me out riding a Japper during the week and the classics on the weekend. Swapping feet for brakes and gears never caught me out - but riding an older British bike I would go flying into a corner - then suddenly remember the brakes didn't work ..

    A few adrenaline moments banging down the gears for maximum engine braking, standing on the brakes, then letting them go to lean it over .. they never lean on brakes .. holding on praying .. had a couple of trips on the grass strips as a result .. but fortunately never dumped it ..
    "So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    I gather the picture I sent you of the forks I have were the wrong ones.
    What have you got? I am after something for my XJ550
    "If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post
    What have you got? I am after something for my XJ550
    The last rites?
    Don't you look at my accountant.
    He's the only one I've got.

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    Quote Originally Posted by F5 Dave View Post
    The last rites?
    Don't be like that Dave, I have a bit of a soft spot for them, first road bike I ever rode back when they were fairly new, first bike I did 100mph + on as well
    "If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."


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    Even BP would shy away from cleaning up a sidecar oil spill.
    Quote Originally Posted by Warren Zevon
    Send Lawyers, guns and money, the shit has hit the fan

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post
    What have you got? I am after something for my XJ550
    Forks only, 41mm FZR. Got no wheels, brakes, or triples.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post
    Don't be like that Dave, I have a bit of a soft spot for them, first road bike I ever rode back when they were fairly new, first bike I did 100mph + on as well
    A mate had one with a Saga? pipe. It sounded ethereal given the beans.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    Forks only, 41mm FZR. Got no wheels, brakes, or triples.
    Now i am confused i thought you said they were 38mm?
    Whats the spacing on the Caliper bolts 100mm? because thats the ones i am after?
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    Quote Originally Posted by husaberg View Post
    Now i am confused i thought you said they were 38mm?
    Whats the spacing on the Caliper bolts 100mm? because thats the ones i am after?
    Yep, I'm measuring the wrong forks. The FZR ones are gone already it seems.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    Yep, I'm measuring the wrong forks. The FZR ones are gone already it seems.
    No worries
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