New '06 Forks

[Constant Mesh]

Installing the wheel and axle between the forks on the '06 may require more skill. With pinch bolts on both forks the installer has to be careful in the side-to-side postion of the axle and wheel. The axle doesn't thread into one fork like it does on previous FJR's.

On other bikes I've seen with two sets of pinch bolts the installer had to check the clearance between the brake discs and calipers with a feeler gauge. If the clearance was not right they had to move a fork and its caliper from side-to-side and then tighten the pinch bolts. Now, there are more things to check before a ride -- four pinch bolts and an axle bolt.

 

[Groo]

Sounds like the old manufacturing axiom... "If it ain't broke, make it more complicated". <_<

 

[afterburn]

I don't know what bikes that are, but I have seen more bikes than I care to remember pass thru our shop and I have yet to have one where you have to check the disc/caliper clearance with a feeler gauge. Wether or not the discs are aligned properly is not due to the axle, but the spacers.

The only difference I have seen is:

1 - Axle gets screwed into the fork and locked with pinch bolts on the opposite side (as with the FJR upto 2006).

2 - Axle slides into place and torqued with a bold that gets screwed into the axle at opposite side, and locked with pinch bolts on both forks.

Both are simple, common solutions that take just as much time. Personally, I'd prefer #2, as a thread gets f* up it is easier and cheaper to replace an axle than it is a lower fork leg.

 

[wpbfjr]

Sounds like the old manufacturing axiom... "If it ain't broke, make it more complicated". <_<

or, "it's not a bug, it's a feature"....