Hi all, been a while but thought I would share the next installment in the race rep project given I have finally got around the engineering stuff after other projects / life got in the way.
The picture shows the old girl awaiting her now front end, in the form of an MV F4 1000 fork, yokes (triple tree) and brake (Nissin 6 pots, not radial) swap. There have been many options but wanted to try and keep the MV / Cagiva link on the bike and quite like the look of the over engineered 58mm diameter MV kit and brings a level of adjust-ability only a new cartridge kit would bring to the stock forks.
Could easily have gone down the Ducati Showa setup as fitted to the race bike but that seemed far too easy using the original headstock and wanted retain the stock front wheel and front mudguard.
So the task so far:
Steering stem on MV bottom yoke had to be replaced with the standard Raptor stem as its a far larger and
head bearing are simply not available and no plans to hack to frame to fit an MV headstock
Spacers being made up to fit the original front spindle to clamp into the MV lower fork clamps
Bespoke front discs been made up with standard centers to move from 300mm discs to 310mm
Once in place fit MV clipons
Looking like the brake lines will need replacing given new caliper position
56mm steering damper fork clamp hunted down (from Italy in the end)
With the front end off all parts have been either sand blasted & powder coated or replaced with Stainless / Titanium fittings (quite untidy under there given its not been out of the garage for 3 years)
Some of the key parts will be back to me within the next week so hope to update more when it looks whole again. Still love this bike over the other toys in the garage and fairly sure it will never be 'finished'.
http://www.raptorchapter.org.uk/downloa ... ew&id=1436