Carbonfibre said:
Here in the UK there are an awful lot of people using Roadholder forks on very serious off-road bikes. They are made to work properly by installing modern internal parts into machined Norton sliders. Nowhere near as expensive as Maxton as used modern forks can be obtained from Ebay, and then its simply a matter of having the machining carried out. Appearance remains as std, but operation of forks improved a great deal. This in conjunction with custom made rear units, will work very well indeed and work almost as well as fitting complete custom made set up.
quote; " simply a matter of having the machining carried out"!
Be carefull here! cross sectional thickness of a short roadholder [not commando] is approx 5mm thick, and i know for a fact that these early sliders snapped on scramblers, they broke in the reduced section, thats why Norton made the Commando ones 5mm thicker in the fore/aft plane]
Plus , boreing out a slider aint "simple" BUT before you rant on it is, i have about 6 pairs that require re-machining, and i will send them to you if you think its that easy...dont get me wrong i have a Harrison centre lathe, and use it allmost every day. But to bore out a slider producing a H7 finnish ,without chatter and not tapered and true to the original axis. and to a set size plus/minus 1/2 thou!...anit simple! Possible yes! simple NO!