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Spent some time at Daves today. For those who don't know, Dave runs a relatively small machine shop. Works for a larger machine shop to make a living as the recession did a number on his business, but he managed through great sacrifice of his own to retain his. He used to build and run race bikes and parts in South Africa in the hay day of the GS and KZ wars. The man has quite a nice collection of his own. A Bimota KB3 (likely the only one in the States) an original Rickman Honda, a RC51. Nice stuff. And the man knows his stuff. Perfectionist. And his favorite thing in the world is building custom and one off exotica for old bikes.
Today he took measurements for building a fork brace for my ZRX. He likes the bike as it reminds him of the old Lawson GPz as it should. After taking his figures and laying it out on paper, we chatted a bit about material from which to build it. I was happy with 7series billet. He wasn't. Said it seemed a shame to make such a nice bit of kit for a nice bike out of a "common alloy" as he put it. He's decided we are doing it out of AZ31B magnesium. Sheesh. He sources the stock, said it wouldn't actually be as expensive as one might think.
So my question for you fellas (and ladies) is:
Who might be interested in a nice magnesium fork brace for your GS?
I can't give pricing ideas at the moment, as I still have no real idea. But I will say it won't be "cheap" but still as affordable as we can make it.
We are planning a run of billet braces anyway, but the option to have magnesium complete with helicoiled bolt holes and Ti bolts will be available.
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