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  1. 2 hours ago, SEBSPEED said:

    I've also found the mounting location of the bar in relation to the forks and stem changes road feel quite a bit. IMO the LSL kit mounts them too far back, almost directly over the stem center. What I found feels best is when the bar center is mounted forward of the stem center by 60-75% of the total offset distance. On standard VFR triples that would be 10-15mm back from the fork centerline. Mounting closer to the axle gives more direct feedback and feels lighter. 

     

     

    There's my something new for the day. Id never thought of that.

    Explains why, when i rotated the oem symmetrical  clamps to be forward on my old ktm 640SM it suddenly felt like i was holding the axle in my hands it was so responsive.

  2. comfortable bars will vary person to person, and bike to bike, because your feet/hips/hands all have to work together to be comfortable, so pegs/seat/bars all need to work together.

    If the pegs say sit upright because they are low, the seat says lean forward (say, if you have a longer shock so the rear is higher), and the bars say sit upright, it will feel slightly off, as well.

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  3. The why was i think it would look better if the top of the red part of the fairing was at the top of the tank, thats all. I thought the lines from the tank would flow a bit better.

    I'll stick with my 5th gen fighter. Its got the headlight just where i want it.

    And stories of the australian snowy mountains arent quite the same as stories from the alps, are they?

     

  4. Ahh, i see.

    But you'd be paying money to stop wasting time.

    When i asked extreme to make the 1098 wheel fit a vfr, we originally talked about making an adapter, like carrozerria used to do. The shim and spacer is much cleaner.

    For me, the goal was to get readily available lightweight wheels on my vfr, which i accomplished years ago.

    Insert smart arse smiley here.

     

    If gig used the Ex creations kit to fit an 848 wheel, and the 848 wheel uses rhe same axle size as the old 916 series of bikes, it stands to reason that you could fit a 916 wheel as well.

    Is the goal the wheel, or being able to say you made it yourself?

     

     

     

  5. All I know is the 848 has the smaller axle, the 1098 has the larger one, 1098 works, 848 is much harder. The 848 (I think) is the smaller axle from the older 916/996 series, so may work with a triumph hub. I didn't choose 1098 from research, I just wanted 6 inches of forged alloy goodness and got lucky.

     

    And I have seen complete 1098 swingarm/hub/caliper/sprocket, for $300 aus. As in, everything except the wheel.

    Don't forget, the 1098S is forged, so even lighter:491:

     

    what are the differences in the 5th/6th/8th gen swingarms? I've notice a few lightweight wheel discussions going on..

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  6. 3 hours ago, YoshiHNS said:

    That's a good chunk of money for some shim stock and a small waterjet/milled part.

    He makes them in a CNC, actually. I dropped off my 1098 wheel years ago because he had a spare 5th gen arm to see how to make it work. This was much cleaner than the carozzeria style adapter I thought he'd have to make.

    I reckon $235 is pretty cheap since he'd done all the measuring for you.

    all prices in AUS$.

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  7. yeah, ally for the shim and spacer.

    Ally for the caliper bracket. It's cnc (extreme creations has  a cnc) so he has a drawing for it, but can also reproduce the bracket fairly quickly. I cant give away a design that a mate worked hard to create.

    the 848 has a smaller axle (like the 916/748 series of bikes) so doesn't quite work out. otherwise Phantom's result wouldn't be quite so mix and match.

    I didn't choose the 1098 through diligent research, I just wanted a 6inch rear wheel. I managed to find a forged 1098S rear wheel, and because mismatched wheels are the devil, a cast 848 front. It was impossible to find a reasonably priced forged front - they tend to take the impact in crashes.

     

    I was wondering why there were 3 responses why I was typing a fairly short response.

    Serious? or very effing excited?

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