I was looking around for 37mm triple clamp sets to swap in to upgrade to 37mm forks, and I was lured in to some GS1100 triples, as it looked to me like the lower triple was aluminum vs the cast steel on my 77 gs750. Then as I searched various models of gs1100e's, g's, etc, I noticed the g and earlier e models appeared to have noticeably less offset in the triples from the steerer to the fork stanchion holes. I remembered the 1st 2 years of gs1100e actually had leading axle fork legs (was a surprise to me, for a performance oriented bike). Maybe this reduced offset was used in conjunction with the extra offset of the leading axle forks?
11980-1981 GS1100E:
1982-1983 GS1100E:
Would it be feasible to run these reduced offset triples with straight leg forks for the same effect that the Art Robbins/Frank Leitner bike had? Or would this produce other ill-handling traits, and require a steering stabilizer, as the Robbins bike has fitted??? This will be a street ridden bike built for riding in the Appalachian twisties & mountains, and will have had a large amount of thought put into the chassis/brakes/suspension.
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