Maintaining stock geometry while doing fork conversion?
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Maintaining stock geometry while doing fork conversion?
Are the KX forks that everyone is using for this conversion the same length from the centerline of the axle to the top of the forks as KDX forks? I haven't seen any mention of lowering the ride height to maintain stock KDX geometry on any of the conversion threads that I've read. I don't want to change the geometry of the KDX when I install MX forks. I just want better forks. The CR250 forks that I plan on using will have to have the ride height lowered ~ 1.5".
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Yes... they all are longer to some extent. They all need to be raised in the clamps....
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I have mine raised .5" and it feels as if it handles like it did before the conversion. Well, better actually but it still drops in to a turn the same.
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That's the kind of thing that I don't want if I can avoid it. 1/4" to 3/8" I can live with. I'm going to have MX-Tech lower the ride height of a set of CR250 forks so that I'll have to slide the forks up in the triple clamps no more than 1/4" or so to maintain the correct ride height for the KDX 200. I'm also going to have the forks re-valved for hare scrambles while MX-Tech has them. The stock CR250 spring rate should be dead on.johnyblaze wrote: Measured out at .993" from the top of the upper clamp to the top of the cap.
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