Motorcycle Triple Clamp Swap

Top triple vertical offset refers to the gullwing design of top triple clamp where the clamps are lower than the stem top.

Motorcycle triple clamp swap.

Reassembly begins at the triple clamps using fresh bearings grease and dust seals. What i have here is a fork swap done with on a 04 speed triple frame with 2014 gsxr 750 front end forks. Although there needs to be some offset at the clamps to give fork clearance for a full. Next click search this may take a couple minutes to auto populate the list there could be hundreds of options available for your swap 3.

Once the list has come up scroll down to the make model and year of the forks from the donor bike it will be top bearing in first column and bottom bearing in second 4. It s not something that is essential but to optimize your bikes handling with your new fork you want to have the correct offset. You can tighten these down and it ll help hold the triple clamp in line with the steering stem so when you crash it doesn t try to twist the front end as easily. In addition this means in theory there are a lot of front ends you could swap onto this bike see here for more and just pop in one of the bikes listed in the allballz page such as a 1978 kawasaki kz400 to see the complete and enormous list warning your milage may vary and with any front end swap the conversion table only lists inner and out diameters so the new stem may be too long.

To do that we offer complete cognito moto triple clamps. Something else that is common on aftermarket triple clamps is a pinch bowl on the top triple clamp. The reason for this is to help it from twisting during a crash. The more offset at the triple clamps the more the rider will feel the weight of the fork tubes when steering.

Then tighten the upper retaining bolt to spec and check everything for free range of motion. Custom made billet triple clamp for any fork sold out gsx r fork on kawasaki kz650 frame conversion stem from 140 00 gsx r fork on cb750 1969 1978 conversion bearings 50 84 retro nut for r6 r1 conversion aluminum from 20 00. We will find a photo to explain. In my case the steering stops on the lower triple clamp interfered with the bike s frame so i ground them down to allow for a better turning radius.