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Next I needed a front end, it wouldve been so much easier to use HD yokes and forks, but they dont work too well, and I never seem to do the easy option.. Instead I did a swap and got a mint pair of 43mm Showa forks from a Honda, along with the discs. Now I needed to find some yokes which would work with the forks and the HD steering head bearings. I took a trip to see my mate Jeff (he often gets me out of the engineering hole I dig for myself). He makes all sorts of stuff in his home workshop, incl the drag bike in which we own a half share. I route about through his shed, uncovered a couple of unfinished billet yokes both drilled for 43mm forks and both not yet drilled to take bar risers. Perfect, as I intended using clip ons. I picked the one pair that were less angular, as it would suite the retro cafe racer style better..

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The tricky bit was now to press out the old stem from the Harley yokes and make spacers etc to fit it to my new billet yokes. As usual, Jeff did a great job, while I got in the way and drank tea and ate all his favourite biscuits

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<blockquote data-quote="Bevelheadmhr" data-source="post: 201967" data-attributes="member: 5032">Next I needed a front end, it wouldve been so much easier to use&nbsp; HD yokes and forks, but they dont work too well, and I never seem to do the easy option.. Instead I did a swap and got a mint pair of 43mm Showa forks from a Honda, along with the discs. Now I needed to find some yokes which would work with the forks and the HD steering head bearings. I took a trip to see my mate Jeff (he often gets me out of the engineering hole I dig for myself). He makes all sorts of stuff in his home workshop, incl the drag bike in which we own a half share. I route about through his shed, uncovered a couple of unfinished billet yokes both drilled for 43mm forks and both not yet drilled to take bar risers. Perfect, as I intended using clip ons. I picked the one pair that were less angular, as it would suite the retro cafe racer style better..[ATTACH=full]49943[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]49944[/ATTACH]The tricky bit was now to press out the old stem from the Harley yokes and make spacers etc to fit it to my new billet yokes. As usual, Jeff did a great job, while I got in the way and drank tea and ate all his favourite biscuits&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> [ATTACH=full]49945[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bevelheadmhr, post: 201967, member: 5032"] Next I needed a front end, it wouldve been so much easier to use HD yokes and forks, but they dont work too well, and I never seem to do the easy option.. Instead I did a swap and got a mint pair of 43mm Showa forks from a Honda, along with the discs. Now I needed to find some yokes which would work with the forks and the HD steering head bearings. I took a trip to see my mate Jeff (he often gets me out of the engineering hole I dig for myself). He makes all sorts of stuff in his home workshop, incl the drag bike in which we own a half share. I route about through his shed, uncovered a couple of unfinished billet yokes both drilled for 43mm forks and both not yet drilled to take bar risers. Perfect, as I intended using clip ons. I picked the one pair that were less angular, as it would suite the retro cafe racer style better.. [ATTACH=full]49943[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]49944[/ATTACH] The tricky bit was now to press out the old stem from the Harley yokes and make spacers etc to fit it to my new billet yokes. As usual, Jeff did a great job, while I got in the way and drank tea and ate all his favourite biscuits :D [ATTACH=full]49945[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]