Front End

Front End be gone! time for upgrades : )

Old riser handle bars/clipons... massively heavy... bin! (or ebay hah), new cnc billet aluminium clipons and alluminium bars to replace : )

Right the route im going down for the front end is a a 07 fireblade! nicely shortening the trail, the bike should end up turning like a beast... and if it ends up being too beastly then i'll add on a steering dampner to help out. Ground clearance is an unknown as yet, cbr1000rr fork are shorter then standard vfr800 forks, but a jack up kit on the rear shock should help out. 1000rr’s use the same steering stem bearings as the VFR, the steering stem length is also the same so it becomes an elementary job to fit. My vfr has had taper bearings fitted top and bottom so the new fork will need this type to be pressed on, should be an easy switcharoo.

Stock vfr yoke next to new Blade yoke. Again the blades is much lighter! drill out the safety bolts to get the ignition switch out and its a perfect match to fit it direct onto the blades! result!

So here we have the shiny CBR1000rr forks : ) against the depressing stock vfr800 forks, again theres a big weight difference here, ill add all weight saving measurements at a later date.

Blade front end on, decided in the end to buy a blade wheel to match as correct wheel bearing sizes to fit the vfr wheel over the blade spindal was too difficult to source and i didnt fancy buying an unknown brand of bearing :s so went with the safe option of just using a blade wheel. The benefit of this is that actually there is a considerable amount of weight saving from the 3 spoke design compared to the rediculously heavy 5 spoke vfr wheel.