Hi,
I'm located in the UK - I bought a really ugly CB550 chop for a good price. I really like the CB550 engine.
I've hit a hurdle with the front end. The bike has stock triple trees, but some forks from a Yamaha, and a 21" dirt bike wheel with a small drum brake which is pretty cool.
Sadly the PO has done some shit engineering to make this work, loads of spacers on the axle, and parts of the drum brake shaved off, the brake stay doesn't reach the forks so he's put a bolt through it with a nut on (will provide pics at some point)
The forks on it are 34" and I believe that stock cb550 forks are 28"?
I've been looking for a 1976 GL1000 front end as i've read that these are a direct swap but they seem to be pretty rare in the UK.
Anyone got thoughts/advice on where to go with this?
I don't think I will have enough clearance for the frame/exhaust if i drop down to stock forks...
I like the look of the current set up, but I'm not happy with the integrity of it...
and I think i probably want a disc brake.
Before pic
Current progress
I'm located in the UK - I bought a really ugly CB550 chop for a good price. I really like the CB550 engine.
I've hit a hurdle with the front end. The bike has stock triple trees, but some forks from a Yamaha, and a 21" dirt bike wheel with a small drum brake which is pretty cool.
Sadly the PO has done some shit engineering to make this work, loads of spacers on the axle, and parts of the drum brake shaved off, the brake stay doesn't reach the forks so he's put a bolt through it with a nut on (will provide pics at some point)
The forks on it are 34" and I believe that stock cb550 forks are 28"?
I've been looking for a 1976 GL1000 front end as i've read that these are a direct swap but they seem to be pretty rare in the UK.
Anyone got thoughts/advice on where to go with this?
I don't think I will have enough clearance for the frame/exhaust if i drop down to stock forks...
I like the look of the current set up, but I'm not happy with the integrity of it...
and I think i probably want a disc brake.
Before pic
Current progress
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