'83 Venture R1/R6 brake upgrade: parts list

[bongobobny]

I can sort of agree with Condor, the front brakes do most of the braking. I did swap over to 4 piston MK2 rear, but you have to swap out the rear caliper mounting bracket, AND the swingarm, or at least the caliper bracket mount "pin" on the swingarm...

[flyday58]

Okay, not gonna bother with the rear then. it's all done and sitting comfortably in my garage in NM. Can't get back to it, though. Getting closer to retirement so naturally losing seniority and getting less time off at work, plus we're on vacation in the South somewhere, so not sure when I'll get to ride again. But at least the forks are done. Again. Again.

Edited May 7, 2016 by flyday58
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[yamagrl]

I just recently bought a set of blue dots on ebay. One thing I was paying attention to was the pads. I paid $60.00 for the pair I ordered which has about 75% of the pads left. Good pads are $35.00-ish x two.

 

If you're doing all of this you might want to replace the fork seals while you have it apart. Technically, you only need the lower fork tubes. So if you replace the fork seals then you may use the best set of upper tubes. If you use the existing upper tubes then it can be done on the bike. There's a couple of articles in the Read Only Section and a couple of videos on Youtube. Here's one on how to do it on the bike.

 

I installed Progressives last year. I used about 1 inch of preload spacer and it raised the font end up too much and the bike wandered a lot at slow speed like when traffic was creeping along. It was very difficult to control. So I took out the 1 inchers and put 1/2 inchers in. That took care or it.

 

Many people state that these bikes are top heavy. That's simply not true, at least with the Mk1. If the front is aired too much then they become "front high" and that makes them wander and seem top heavy. The gas tank location lowers the center of gravity considerably.

 

Heather