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Had a bit of bother with exhaust/mudguard interface when braking and slightly turning forks to left when pulling up in fronton my garage, which burnt the paint on mudguard. I found that the forks were fitted with the softer dual rate springs so made a couple of 20mm spacers to pre load them. on a test ride the forks were too hard, so I bought a swept back exhaust from Mr H and after chopping about 6" from the back end and modifying the front bracket got it fitted with my shorter silencer. there is now more space between the pipe and mudguard, and I reckon it looks OK, even though it's not a Goldie! Oh, and I re painted the mudguard with our hosts aerosols, in Magic black and clear coat. and I try not to jam the brake on so hard when stopping!

Sorry about no picture, for some reason My Apple computer and Photobucket don't work like my outgoing Windows one I've used before. If I try to "Update my account" as told on the warning that came up instead of the picture, I can't find anything that relates to solving the problem! Account closed, will try to find another way.

This is a problem a lot of people are having with Photobucket. They are moving to a pay-to-host system. Search some recent threads for alternatives!

REgards, Mark

Testing, testing

No good, they don't supply an html link.

That's the only picture-viewing link this forum will accept unfortunately.



Try www.imageupload.co.uk



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Back to the forks, have you tried an additional short piece of spring in place of a solid spacer?

Sorry, please ignore Image Upload, they seem to be having problems at the moment... A.

Allan, I have removed the spacers, with the swept back exhaust fitted there is no contact with the mudguard. I was going to buy some standard springs but thought they would, too, be too hard. One thing I did find out about the softer springs already installed was when I measured the length as advised by H's, the standard ones are supposed to be 20.5" long new, but the dual rate ones are 21.5" long. So they are already pre loaded when fitted. So, the ride is now back to tollerable. The new pipe fits right up to the stop in the port as well, whereas the standard one only pushed in about 1/4". I had cut about 1/2" from the old pipe to bring it nearer the head, but it was still hitting the mudguard. Oh, the bike has the disc conversion fitted when I bought it, so that probably contributes to the fork dive!