Can anyone please urgently give me a dimension from outside disc face to outside disc face on a KR1S - I am overseas (Sweden)at the moment and urgently need this dimension for a company over here.
The measurement needs to be across the outside of the front disc rotors.(ie across the front wheel left to right) please state if discs are standard or aftermarket although this may only affect slightly due to disc rim thickness.
Cant leave it up to my wife to measure mine back home
My neighbours must think I'm mad... I have a meeting to go to in a bit, so I'm in a pinstripe suit.. measuring the discs on my bike, then walking around holding a digital caliper
Looks more plausible than bleeding your brakes in a pinstripe suit !
Needed the dimension to check Radial caliper offset and see if additional offset created by narrow KR1S front wheel would be an issue to torsionals on fork leg mountings during braking
making my own yokes but want to keep the KR front wheel and retain speedo drive as per KR1S.
I am trying to retain the KR1S look but with a few replacement high end parts to have the ultimate well engineered KR1S.
I want to keep the matching KR1S wheels - i have looked at Marvic , Dymag routes in matched pairs but then i would have to look at 17" rear and brake / sprocket issues. Also magnesium wheels can only be painted and not sucessfully powdercoated and this is my preferred surface finish for wheels.
Trying not to detract too far from the KR1S original look.
It involves lots of machining time with any modification away from standard and when building a special i always say go with what you like in terms of quality , function and appearance and obviously price comes into it somewhere.
My bike used to have an RGV 17" rear 3 spoke and a modified ZXR400 3 spoke front in the standard yokes and forks. Since then I fitted the ZXR400 modified SP front end and a 17" 5" wide Dymag rear wheel. I later fitted a comple RGV rear end. Each to their own though as Dymags etc are very expensive.