Hoping for the best.....Need some forks for MKI

[Snaggletooth]

I haven't been around the site much the last year but I find myself in a bind. When I did my last fork rebuild a couple years back the inner legs were iffy. On my last trip back to the Omaha area I blew out both front fork seals. Rather than start the eBay grind of buying unknown forks and doing another attempt at putting together another set of rebuildable forks I'm going to try this.

 

I still am riding my '84 MK1 with stock brakes. I would like to find an intact, working set of forks to do an R/R with the current forks. I had to leave the bike in a storage unit and I'm limited on room and tools available to do a complete rebuild there.

 

I have the Progressives in the current legs so that is a quick change out along with the block off plates so the anti dives wouldn't be needed.

 

The project is going to be as about as close to a road side repair as I can get in the current situation.

 

Any body with forks to part with let me know. I'm not looking for freebies just good solid forks for a fair price.

 

Thanks

 

Mike

[Flyinfool]

Would it be worth it at this point to get a set of MKII forks to get the bigger brakes?

[Snaggletooth]

Hey Jeff.

 

I screwed myself last year.

 

I had all the parts ready to do a complete fork rebuild for the MKII upgrade on my bike. Had the calipers, rotors and polished legs ready to go. Situation changed for me back then and I ended up selling or giving away about all my spare or upgrade parts.

 

At that time I figuring on letting the bike go.

 

At this point it would be best to just do a swap with usable working forks for the time being.

 

So for now......looking for a fast and easy way out.