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    Quote Originally Posted by Buddha#81 View Post
    That still the FXR front end (for sale). The Kat front end turned up today and its a 3" wide wheel, this may be an oversight, but free for tyres.
    Huh? You didnt check the rim size before bidding? Get ya bro to narrow it down for ya!

    Otherwise, have you seen the Dunlop slicks for sale at Falsgrave?
    115/50 x 17 and a 115/65 x 17, these may work better with a 120 rear?

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    Quote Originally Posted by gav View Post
    Huh? You didnt check the rim size before bidding? Get ya bro to narrow it down for ya!

    Otherwise, have you seen the Dunlop slicks for sale at Falsgrave?
    115/50 x 17 and a 115/65 x 17, these may work better with a 120 rear?
    I didn't check......silly me. But do have and option for a loaner if the 3" doesn't work. I will keep the 3" for the pre '89 motard conversion. So not alls lost. It wasn't a straight fit either. Easy fix though.

    Falsgrave are selling slicks? What sizes and prices? I take it its the one in by AMI stadium?


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    Heres one of them, looks like a rear.
    http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=197494237

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    Its done, I straightened the bottom tripple clamp and welded the stem in today and reassembled tonight. All I need to do is bleed the brakes and fit Yow Lings loaner wheel and test. I will report back after the next outing on the track. I'm hoping the bigger forks and better profile front tyre on a wider rim will make the money spent worth while. I'm still going to fit a 115 tyre to the 3" rim to see how that goes, I'm expecting it to slow the turning down.......but the is only one way to find out.
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    Its finished MkII......I did some tuning over the long weekend and found both fork seals were toast, so I've fitted new seals and gone from trusty 20wt to 15wt. Yow Lings loaner front wheel has been fitted with a BrenChch had-me-down 95-70-17 Dunlop Slick. So roll on track time next month.
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    Its harder to lose weight than gain horsepower.

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    Noice!
    Just be careful when you hit the brakes for the first time, you wouldn't want to impale yourself on those forks!


    P.S.I'm lovin' the blackness!

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    Lovely!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sully60 View Post
    P.S.I'm lovin' the blackness!
    Black is the colour you use when you have no imagination.

    Looks good Buddha. Love to know how she goes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skunk View Post
    Black is the colour you use when you have no imagination.

    Looks good Buddha. Love to know how she goes.
    Cheers......Blacks the colour when its free and the best quality airasshole cans in the world. The ammount I crash I'm hardly going to shell out for a decent paint job. If you look closely in the photo the tail piece has the flat spot from the BOB crash.


    Its harder to lose weight than gain horsepower.

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    Black is where it's at!

    Black is a traditional motorcycle colour and there fore culturally sensitive to use black as long as the motorcycle in question has no overriding colour traditional.
    Compare Pornography now to 50 years ago.
    Then extrapolate 50 years into the future.
    . . . That shit's Nasty.

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