Attack of the Noobie: Fork options/Rotor options (1978)

[lumberjack]

The kit from me is about $85 snail mail to Canada. There are some reasons the kit is the way it is - most of these relate to cost (which seems to be important to you), ease of fitting & a large factor of safety.

The kit I currently have fitted is a little different but the factor of safety, specific parts required & amount of work do not make it practical as a forum wide solution.

The kits are now steel (cheaper, thinner / slightly smaller so less obtrusive & allow use of the stock bolts - finding metric bolts is not so easy here in the US).

There is info posted on all the rotor & caliper options or I can email them to you if necessary.

The newest calipers you will find that fit are 2006. (ZG1000 calipers - both sides or 250 caliper - buy two & use the parts to fit to an older left side from an EX500, ZG1000 or Ninja).

The newer Ninja / V strom, SV650 etc 2 piston brakes would fit from a thickness of caliper perspective but it is a much more complex bracket - time versus cost! Also those have two pistons the same size and are not such a nice caliper as the older one. The older one has 2 different size pistons & give a better lever feel.

There are some rotors that only need the bolts enlarging - that is true but they are generally rarer & again more expensive than the F3 ones and still need a ring behind them (the ring acts as a template/drilling jib to re-drill the F3 ones anyway). The cheaper Chinese ones weren't about at the time.

I have seen 4 piston brakes fitted. You need to space the rotor very close to the fork leg & put the bolts in from the back. The bracket is different - I wasn't happy with the setup I saw.
If you got Blackbird rotors or the very rare 320mm rotor you may get slightly more room but I still think it would be extremely tight.

$85 is totally a bargain, considering I assume it includes brackets for the calipers AND the spacers for the rotors (that double as a template).

I think I emailed you today, asking a bunch of questions about your kit and about rotors to use. I think I might PM you here, but if you get back to my email, then we'll just talk that way, if that works?

I have a feeling I will be ordering a kit asap