What is wrong with this ?
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What is wrong with this ?
I saved this ebay add awhile back ... What is wrong with this picture ? Look closely ...http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/GSX-R...em300154890263 
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I had to look for a while, but in one of the last pictures it dawned on me...
Originally Posted by Ebay Seller guy
When I purchased this bike from the motorcycle dealer, the forks were on backwards as they are now. They said it was for stunts like stoppies. It has not affected the performance or handling of the bike at all. If it sells for the buy it now price, I will have the forks put on the other way if the purchaser wishes. Otherwise it will be at the sole discretion of the buyer who wins to have them turned around.
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Actually, I can imagine it slows the handling somewhat (not sure if this is the intended result?)
One of my old Honda 4cyl bikes mounted the caliper that way. Many racers in the 70s/80s would move the caliper behind the fork leg to move the unsprung weight lower and reduce the inertial force it presented to the fork assembly (quickening steering slightly). Check out the 1969 CB750 (the bike that changed the world, according to many MC enthusiasts), it mounted it's caliper that way.
One of my old Honda 4cyl bikes mounted the caliper that way. Many racers in the 70s/80s would move the caliper behind the fork leg to move the unsprung weight lower and reduce the inertial force it presented to the fork assembly (quickening steering slightly). Check out the 1969 CB750 (the bike that changed the world, according to many MC enthusiasts), it mounted it's caliper that way.
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