Where is Jim Day?

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Originally Posted by Bert Vega

are those dirt bike forks? They look like their off a 80.

The Bike is a 750, 1975 R75/6, and those are Kayaba forks off a 2004 YZ450F..


I adapted the forks to fit the bike but I also drilled out the cartridges, put in a spacer at the mid valve, shortened them 2.5 inches and reworked the springs.

So the new fork shorter then the stock YZ450F fork but much larger and tougher then stock BMW forks, and off road capable. Shortened Kayaba forks are a common upgrade for the BMW R100GS duel sport bikes. The bike basically has the same suspension as a modded or improved GS.