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Front fork lengths

J

John Kat

Forum Sage
I measured the free lengths of a couple of Suzuki forks that might be usefull for those contemplating an upgrade:rolleyes:
Here they are from longest to shortest ( wheel axle center to tube top)
Katana 1100 SD/SZ : 800 mm
GS 1000 E/S : 775 mm
GSX R 1100 G/H (RSU 41 mm) : 767 mm
GSX R 1100 K (RSU 43 mm) : 745 mm
GSF 1200 Bandit 96/02 (RSU 43 mm) : 775 mm
So obviously if you upgrade a GS 1000 to 1st gen GSXR 1100 fork you are relatively safe despite the front wheel beeing 1 inch smaller in diameter.
The worst case beeing a Kat with a 2nd gen GSXR fork where the better choice is most probably a bandit sourced item but I don't have it's exact length?
I'm currently working on adding 100 mm to a GSXR 2nd gen fork and I'll update the thread when it's ready.
Here's a picture of the GS 1000, GSXR 1st gen and GSXR 2nd gen forks
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