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Originally Posted by Nickj
A set of forks say something common and old like a 748 are anything from £200 up with a bit of a premium on the top end Showas.
Then we need the current ones bored at the top and shimmed at the bottom
Still need to strip and service the old shock, go down the TiN route and there's another £x00 (seen quotes for £400 for service and TiN treatment to the sliders)
The spring rate will be way out so there's a new set of coils needed
Then the caliper mounts will be wrong so I need to use the gold calipers I have (after they've been stripped and refurbished, and that also means getting new disks.
Add it all up and it is quite a bit more than the cost of a set of drop in internals and I'm after the 90% standard look but better, or more what I want it to be.
As I'm also going to be swapping out the rear shock there's another £x00.
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You've given this some close scrutiny. I know because I have too & I can to the same conclusions you have! By now my conversion would have been done, but Covid came and cancelled all that. Next year...