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Hugh's HandBuilt
The real deal, made in steel (Couldn't help myself - haha)
Fork Yeah! (see, I did it again...) These things have been long in the making. As you have probably already seen from Hugh's HandBuilt, we only bring the best to the table - and this fork brace is right on par with what I want to see our customers have.
Made from 100% US Made Steel, and Fabricated completely in-house at HHB.
So lets get to the meat and potatoes here… We love XS’s, we love em all… Bobbers, Choppers, Cafe’s, Brats, Resto-Mods, you name it… We do our best to find the weak points in these old bikes, and make them better. When we built Tevan’s Resto-Mod XS2 – we found out the hard way that the front forks needed some beefing up… It was just a bit squirelly in the corners are speed, and that to us is unacceptable. I had noticed it on other XS's as well, but this particular bike was build for the twisties and had to perform... I knew we could make it happen
The OEM fender acts as a “brace” of sorts, but it’s flimsy and you can flex it with your hands – so that wasn’t the answer either. We looked around the forums, talked to some of our racing customers, and found a serious lack for a proper fork brace. So off to the shop we went, after about 7 different designs and tests , the final HHB Fork Brace was born out of steel, sweat and even a little blood (careful folks, those metal ‘burrs’ are sharper than you think! haha) Behold, the HHB Fork Brace! Made from 100% USA Made Steel, fabricated entirely in house and fully TIG welded – it doesn’t get much better than this![/IMG]
Head over to the blog or website for more information on availability and pricing. Thanks so much for your support folks, you make my job awesome!
And Just for fun, From the 1981 Publishing of the "Minton Mods" - Considering Inflation, I think our pricing is just as good - haha
Okay, so your bike’s fork flexes. What can you do about it? The answer is as simple as bolting on a fork brace. We used one of the braces sold by Racer’s Supply. These braces are made by Racer’s World, cost $59.95, and work. The brace is made of two pieces of steel tubing bent to fit over and around the bike’s fender and welded to steel bars drilled to fit the fender-mount lugs on each fork. Some care should be exercised in fitting this brace to your bike’s fork. Individual motorcycle tolerances make it almost impossible for Racer’s World to make every fork brace fit every bike. It is very important that the fork brace be a slip-fit between the fork legs. If there is any stress between the brace and the legs, there will be an undesirable increase in fork stiction. Usually only a bit of filing is needed to fit one of these braces. Just be sure that the fit between the legs and the brace is snug and does not result in any side pressure on the fork legs.
AND as Always, these are available in our store - right here: http://www.hughshandbuilt.com/product/hhb-xs650-sr500-fork-brace/
Fork Yeah! (see, I did it again...) These things have been long in the making. As you have probably already seen from Hugh's HandBuilt, we only bring the best to the table - and this fork brace is right on par with what I want to see our customers have.
Made from 100% US Made Steel, and Fabricated completely in-house at HHB.
So lets get to the meat and potatoes here… We love XS’s, we love em all… Bobbers, Choppers, Cafe’s, Brats, Resto-Mods, you name it… We do our best to find the weak points in these old bikes, and make them better. When we built Tevan’s Resto-Mod XS2 – we found out the hard way that the front forks needed some beefing up… It was just a bit squirelly in the corners are speed, and that to us is unacceptable. I had noticed it on other XS's as well, but this particular bike was build for the twisties and had to perform... I knew we could make it happen
The OEM fender acts as a “brace” of sorts, but it’s flimsy and you can flex it with your hands – so that wasn’t the answer either. We looked around the forums, talked to some of our racing customers, and found a serious lack for a proper fork brace. So off to the shop we went, after about 7 different designs and tests , the final HHB Fork Brace was born out of steel, sweat and even a little blood (careful folks, those metal ‘burrs’ are sharper than you think! haha) Behold, the HHB Fork Brace! Made from 100% USA Made Steel, fabricated entirely in house and fully TIG welded – it doesn’t get much better than this![/IMG]
Head over to the blog or website for more information on availability and pricing. Thanks so much for your support folks, you make my job awesome!
And Just for fun, From the 1981 Publishing of the "Minton Mods" - Considering Inflation, I think our pricing is just as good - haha
Okay, so your bike’s fork flexes. What can you do about it? The answer is as simple as bolting on a fork brace. We used one of the braces sold by Racer’s Supply. These braces are made by Racer’s World, cost $59.95, and work. The brace is made of two pieces of steel tubing bent to fit over and around the bike’s fender and welded to steel bars drilled to fit the fender-mount lugs on each fork. Some care should be exercised in fitting this brace to your bike’s fork. Individual motorcycle tolerances make it almost impossible for Racer’s World to make every fork brace fit every bike. It is very important that the fork brace be a slip-fit between the fork legs. If there is any stress between the brace and the legs, there will be an undesirable increase in fork stiction. Usually only a bit of filing is needed to fit one of these braces. Just be sure that the fit between the legs and the brace is snug and does not result in any side pressure on the fork legs.
AND as Always, these are available in our store - right here: http://www.hughshandbuilt.com/product/hhb-xs650-sr500-fork-brace/
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Hugh, you could have saved yourself all that "research and devolopment" and just bought one of mine, I knew about the ill handling of the XS years ago 
