None of the "Big players" would ever make anything for such a niche bike, be it suspension or exhaust or whatever, unless something from other models that fits. Note that eg Touratech even dumped the things they got in the design phase already (seats). We're left with small niche producers that we convinnce theres a market or one-off items.
I have been too busy to run the bike over to Zip Ty. I will try next week, but no promises. Last month was crazy hopefully this month will slow down some.
I will wait and see but I was looking at Konflick Motorsports suspension. He does the shiver fork conversion on the forks and adds a modern style cartridge along with adjustable compression and rebound adjusters. Plus he has a great reputation for setting up suspension.
I thought the cartridge kits were going for around $1500. The good part about Konflict is he sets it up for you. I don't know if the cartridge kits are valved specifically for each rider or if it more generic.
If you want to you could fit a ohlins ilx in the rear. I put one in mine. They are built for the automotive side but an ohlins guy can get it set up for you. You will need too make some adjustments too the linkage.
Don't suppose we can encourage a bit more of a write up on your suspension improvements? As i seem to recall you successfully switched out the front end also. Might be really helpful to others to get a little more in depth as to the short and long of the challenges involved. Machine work etc, just a thought, nice to see someone moving forward with this. Maybe some more pics as you proceed?
Sure, ill try to write something up for you guys. It will probably take a couple of days. As to suspension setup mine is probably not fit for the "adventure" offroad bike since im building more of a race track oriented bike, but thats mostly a selection of springs and front end travel and such. I have been at the race track twice with it now and it handles really good actually, going there again for two days this week, made some preeload adjustments and shortening the forks about 20mm so we will se how it works out. Ill probably build a supermono bike with it this winter full fairing and new subframe. If i get around to it ill make a build thread.
Excellent! I'll be greatly looking forward to any tidbits you care to throw out. I think the TR with the right suspension and little more stopping power and some mild tuning would be a real fun track bike. Curious what your paying for track time your neck of the woods?
Hansson are those CBR250R ( original one not the current crap one) rims an the Husky? Does the ABS still work with the 17" front?
Well found out the hard way that even thou i beefed up the brakes alot they need some more beefing. Overheated them and ran straight out of the track, lucky for me there was an escape so i stayed on the wheels. I see dual discs in the future. A trackday costs about 150usd.
No thats Ducati 900ss wheels. Thats why the rear wheel is reversed. Dont know if the abs works, havent tried it. I just put the sensor in rear to get a speedo reading.
