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Kawi Kwestion

Guest · 2012-10-17T23:57:10Z

Hi kids! First post of many I'm sure. I have a '96 Kawasaki KZ1000P-15 Police bike. It's an undercover cop bike: under cover of a tarp and parked in the yard. I have tools & welders so in the near future its cover gets blown with a new assignment: 'Cop Hack'! First thing I'm looking at is fork specs. From the KZ1000P Police Manual it states Castor 63*, Trail 114mm - 4.5", Rake 27*. From what I've read here I thought at first that might be fairly good trail numbers for a sidecar rig. Then I notice folks are referring to degrees of trail, not inches or mm. Can't find any references to this bike's trail given in degrees. At this thread everything is given as degrees of rake or trail, not trail measurement in inches or mm:Other KZ1000 stock triple trees include trail specs of 99mm/3.89", 107mm/4.2", 115mm/4.5" & 120mm/4.72" for the 38mm fork tubes. Info on trail is somewhat confusing to me so I don't really know which direction is best, shorter or longer trail, but thinking shorter is best for lighter steering, longer for straight line tracking? Question is, which of those triple trees is best for a sidecar rig? Any? Thanks! .

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Thanks, Cleatus, that's sorta what I've been thinking. I don't want one finger steering by any means, just don't want to get beat to death on the super twisty mountain roads around here.

Hoping to start on all this craziness in the near future. Thanks!

Posted : November 19, 2012 4:23 pm

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