Legal Pre-70 front ends

[Freakshow]

not even close....... ones Ali for a start the other is a lead weight in steel.    im sure there differant daimete as well, i have a pair sitting in the corner with the bones of one i stripped out.   and the forks dont even look the same.  its like saying the DT1 steel forks are like the Alimunim ones, pick a set up in your hand, other then going up and down, you cant say there the same forks.

[firko]

That's what we wanted to know, thanks Freaky. For what its worth the steel DT1 forks are pretty much the same internally as the alloy version. Perhaps Suzuki are the same. They're both made by the same factory. The best way to get them working is to fit cartridge emulators, if not ditch em and fit a set of Betors.                 

[euro bikes]

If everyone ran their bikes the way they were made in that era wouldn't that be what riding old bikes is about, with their shitty handling and power but all would be the same for everyone. Probally be abused for this i suppose!!! Cartridge emulators just wern't around then.

[bazza]

euro bikes makes a good point,if emulators were not around and yet your rules ban period swing arms at the other end of a bike??

[euro bikes]

This why i have given it away ,they are not what i used to race back when they were new . The fun is gone for me.

[firko]

yet your rules ban period swing arms at the other end of a bike

No they don't. You can run any period swingarm you like. Non period isn't allowed because it affects the look of the bike. Emulators are unseen and even if they were declared illegal, how would you enforce it? This subject and other like it have been flogged to death and I haven't got the patience of Nathan to argue the pros and cons any more. It is what it is.

[euro bikes]

But dose that make it right!

[bazza]

Like a period alloy suzuki swingarm, yeah right
as for external not seen so ok, lets run 175cc in our 125cc you cant seeit, i dont think so

[Dono113]

Rights fellas we can run down the road of changing sleeves to higher cc and their are who believe its "run what was available time" if I change it will be period correct, I have a spare set of stock forks I just thought I could hear from fellas how have done the hard yards.
Cheers
Bret D