single sided front suspension

[Cloudninefj84]

My old man found some mags from the early 90's a few days ago compairing the fj to the other "big motor open class bikes of the time." I like that the fj was said to be out dated by this time but all testers still prefered the bike over the rest. Any way I also noticed that every major bike company of the time were also experimenting with single sided front suspensions that all seemed to be the best handling bikes that were made in the late 80's early 90's so I was curious if any of U smarter guys have ever looked into it. Or if any one knows were I might be able to get my hands on a junker so I could have a go at it. I don't really think that there will be any junkers seeing how if U have one of those bikes U wouldn't have gotten It to the point of a cheep junker. Then again some rich people don't value anything. So let me know what u think is it a good idea even worth my time to try it I know it will look good  or is it more worth it to do like I was going to do a kawi rear wheel and fzr front or maybe the full thunderace.

[andyb]

Actually most of the bikes with a single sided front suspension handled rather poorly or was junk for other reasons.

Hell, the Tesi nearly took down bimota, and if they can't figure a chassis out, I wouldn't want to dick with it myself..

[mz_rider]

The FJ's replacement was the GTS1000 with a single sided front end. These were produced '93-'96 and are very rare. They looked quite nice if a bit odd but compared to the FJ they were expensive and less powerful so sold poorly.

Stuart

[Arnie]

Hell, the Tesi nearly took down bimota, and if they can't figure a chassis out, I wouldn't want to dick with it myself..

Actually, Bimota's biggest money sink was the "VDue", a 500cc Fuel Injected 2-stroke.  All who had a chance to ride one that worked raved about the handling, but were scathing about the engine management.  Problem with the Tesi is that people just didn't buy many.

Cheers,
Arnie

[Cloudninefj84]

I just thought it would look cool...be different seeing as how every one seems to do conversions anyway

[andyb]

Different time period, arnie.  The VDue nearly sank the company, but the Tesi had the same effect some years earlier.  The Tesi didn't do well for a number of reasons, frequent and difficult servicing, and a lack of feedback from the front end meant it didn't sell well. 

The VDue was a total shame, just needed a bit more effort and it'd have been a milestone, but they were out of money to spend on it and it showed

The other single sided front end that I can think of is on the Gilera CX125, but I don't know anything about that at all.

Actually, Bimota's biggest money sink was the "VDue", a 500cc Fuel Injected 2-stroke.  All who had a chance to ride one that worked raved about the handling, but were scathing about the engine management.  Problem with the Tesi is that people just didn't buy many.