I'm still in the planning phase for my 550, but did buy that P&P pictured above. The stem threads into the lower tree.īumping my own thread again just to talk about the aesthetics, engineering, and philosophy of girders. It's relatively simple to get a stem made that fits your neck and then use spacers between the bottom tree and the lower neck cup to make the rockers parallel. So that's already going to drop your trail if you keep stock rake in the neck.Ī lot of the P and P's were made with 7/8" sporty stems. I believe the offset from the neck on the P and P is 5". Dont use it unless you're raking your bike out. The extra hole behind where the lower rocker mounts to the legs is 5* internal rake. I did this because it's easy to tighten the crap out of them and lock up the front end from moving at all. I dont know much about the stock bolts on the rocker studs, but I used an acorn nut and a jam nut on mine so I could adjust the force on the joints. They also used nylon washers between anything that wiggled. The HD shock, however, may be a bit more stiff than you'd like. The shocks are 12" long and can be replaced with a newer HD shock with minimal effort. Late model K7/K8/F2/F3 front sprocket cover removal: Shorten your forks: DO NOT CUT THE SPRINGS!
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