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M50 Running gear on a Shaftie

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Has anyone tried this? I've been wanting to swap the front end of my GS650GL to something more modern, since I took it apart, and realized how easy it is. I was regulated to just a dual-disc set-up though, when I found out about the whole radial vs. Bias ply tires. Well this weekend, I was at my buddies, and we were checking out each other's bikes. I was looking at his M50 (A Boulevard - the M means Muscle), and the wheels started turning. His bike is a shft drive...with radial tires, and a fairly modern USD fork. It also has a single shock in back, so the swingarm would need some re-engineering to make it work with a twin shock set-up, but I think I could have the first G model with a 120 front end and a 180 rear. Now right now, this is a pipe dream. I am going to continue to put my bike back together, and try to get the wife on it. If she likes it though, maybe next winter, it'll get an upgrade.
 
you need to measure the length of the forks for both. and check the steering head bearing sizes and stem size on bike bandit to see if they are the same. if bearings and forks are same length they should fit. Suzuki has a lot of common things for example, i could do a straight swap to a 04+ gsxr front end to my SV if i wanted to very easily. Suzuki still uses one of the same bearing sizes that the GS uses on the GSXR so i would think the bearing will be the same.

just good luck finding a m50 front end, they are pretty new, and no one is replacing m50 front ends with ohlin stuff to go race them. you may have bette rluck tring to get a HD/custom front end to fit. probly cost the same.
 
The parts availability is obviously a problem. I figure, if I'm not in a hurry if/when I do it, I should be able to watch EBAY and find a couple of junkers. Even though people don't race em, they still crash em....

I'm more curious about the rear swingarm though, and I did find two of those on Ebay. If I wanted a front end I could always use the Gixxer front end, like so many others have around here.
 
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