Sunday, April 5, 2009

New parts are in

On Friday I received something in the mail: My new axle and brake caliper bracket. These are the key parts needed to adapt the BMW hub to Yamaha (KYB) dirt bike forks.

This thing is a very clever design. Since the Yamaha axle is a larger diameter, it had to be bigger on both ends than in the middle,and trust me: That would make mounting the wheel quite difficult!

So JDRadman's brilliant solution was to put a nut at one end of the axle, that is also rounded and acts as the bearing surface for mounting in the fork leg.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here's an essay:




1 comment:

  1. Updated pic source? Very interested in seeing how everything looks.

    Considering doing this to my 07 dakar, but i'm worried about the ABS, ignition, and steering lock and stops.

    Great blog, by the way!

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