PerversePolisher's GSX-R 7/11 Front-end

Almost the entire front-end of my project was from a GSXR750J. I purchased it from a local breakers yard for £60. In the deal I got the yokes, forks, ignition barrel (& key), fork-brace, front-wheel, speedo-drive, brake disks, and all the bar-mounted controls.

I had decided early on that I was going to replace the disks for wavy ones, fortunately enough, I knew someone who needed a pair of disks to get his bike through an MOT but couldn't afford new ones, sold for half the cost of the front-end. I also had decided that I wanted the yokes to be polished, which was actually a surprisingly easy job. But firstly I got Steelheart Enginering to modify the top yoke to take risers so that I could fit a set of Renthal superbike bars. Steelheart also made up a set of brake caliper adapters to mate the GSXR750J forks to the GSXR1000 calipers that I acquired from ebay.

When I checked over the forks properly I discovered that the chrome on the fork-tubes was very badly damaged, I enquired about getting them properly rechromed with a good quality hard-chrome, but I found that for not much more money I could have brand new tubes that were coated in Titanium-nitride made by Paoli (the ones who make suspension for Ducati). I also found a company that was selling WP progressive suspension springs at a reasonable cost. One quick chat with David at Motorbike World and a set of WP progressive srpings uprated by 15% was winging their way to me.

It's a bit of an unusual choice to use right-way-up (RWU) forks, but these forks are fully adjustable, and isn't building a Streetfighter all about being different?

A set of gold-titanium yoke bolts was ordered to replace the badly corroded ones that had been removed from the yokes. New head-race top and bottom bearings were fitted and the whole assembly slotted together quite easily.

Can't wait to see the wife's face when she discovers this lot in the kitchen tomorrow morning ;-)