| Author | Message | ||
     Save_ferris |
If anybody has a spare set they'd sell. | ||
| Brucespoint |
I have the same want, cain't@moment cuz fixed income, projects in front more needed. Curious as to your plans, will yah spill? b. Ooops, my bad, shoulda checked profile 1st. 09 XT, replacement? Ouch! I'm working out how I could fit 19"s, to try out DT tires on the Excellent backroads around here in NW Ontario. They build them well, for logging & other access mostly recreational now, but built for trucks, Excellently packed & drained crushed rock, nice clay cap, again well drained, solid, reliable, & Killer to ride on while steaming off after passing rain showers, canz play XR750@sane speeds, where there's terrain, too much fun! Wanna step it up@Ulytime, just don't want to lose BiG & Beautious Front brake, but that not likely to make it. Funny thing, just realized that the Most Confidence Inspiring in riding street, after mostly involvement in D-38 Desert Racing, also had 19"s on both ends. A 73 Norton 850, pre electric start Commando, that I swapped w/fellow USCG MK trainee, who weighed about 120lbs soaking wet in winter uniform, his only transpo, from Dundalk outside Baltimore, traded my 71 240Z for the weekend, turnrd me loose@Tidewater rds around Annapolis@such, did it a couple of weekend cuz too much FUN, & that bike would not only let you get away with drifting on asphalt, while wheelying out of corners, but Encourage one to Hoon ever more, Street riding became a thing for moi. The XB!2X,fitted, as Confidence inspiring as the Norton. F You Willie G. & Board, ded to me, this M/C neVah going to leave me. (Message edited by brucespoint on June 25, 2019) (Message edited by brucespoint on June 25, 2019) | ||
| Tootal |
If I remember the XT used the same trees as the 06 X. If somebody can confirm that I have my take offs from my 06. You pay for shipping and their yours, just sitting in the attic. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
I think you're right. The 2008 and up XB12X had the odd-looking clamps and bottom legs that pitched the tubes forward to get more steering angle. | ||
| Brucespoint |
2008 & up XB12X clamps are Exactly what I desire for experimentation w/rake & trail & machined eccentrics for the stem, to try fitting 19"s, or 18's if only that possible, opening a whole new shoe store for My never going anywhere but w/moi Uly. eVah! b. have a post, that thinkin bout posting here, from last ride w/NW Ontario & other ADVrider.com provincial riders from all over Canada & USA that I sold on the capabilities of this Machine for myself.A search@ADVrider.com for Man Soup, would likely turn it up, sept. 10, 2011 was my 1st post on the thread, last ride on the Uly for moi, caught up in thev Opioid Hysteria, for a Mining injury 25+ years ago, that had stopped All riding, till a meeting w/a Moose, & a heart attack the next year, the one my Uly branded with, put me onto the med mix that enable moi to ride@100% aGain, till Andrew Kolodny decided to hget Rich, by demonizing injured workers, that Produce the things that Built the USA, that I'm no longer residing in, after it tried to Kill moi. Anybody interested in reading bout a Truly Epic Uly ride? Writing, because the worm is finally turn, the Fraud being exposed in Court, while being Paid 300-500 Thousand, for testifying in State Opioid Trials, while the REAL problem all along, was Chinese Fentnyl, & the Oblivion seeking poor fools, chasing their own Death, because No Hope Left, in a Very Sick Nation. Not. Chronic Pain pts, who would Hurt Others, before loosening their Grip, on the Only Med for Pain, that let the poor sods live a semi-normal life. Having Hope, for the return of Actual Medicine being practiced, for the poor fools thinking a Corporation, a legal fiction to protect assets from being seized for Wrongs done by Corpse, to the Workers who make their geld for them. Disposable, tossed off for the dumpster of life, all used up, no place to Rest from that. NiCe place, we All voted ourselves too. Families have been Here, Building This, since 1585, kent Island, Chesapeak Bay, Virginia Territoty, Tobacco Traders, Grocers Guild of London, English Dutch, the Original Free traders, Knew None of this, till marrying an English/Canadian/Austrailian, into geneology in single digits, as much a reader as moi, who dug up the whole mess, starting in the New World there, mostly all in by 1650, when the floodgates opened, but for one very interesting SilverSmith in Calif, in the 1850s. I haz Blood in this game going on, and May Yet, kiss the Queens ring if this Idiocy continues. (Message edited by brucespoint on June 26, 2019) (Message edited by brucespoint on June 26, 2019) | ||
| Save_ferris |
Tootal, I'd be willing to give them a look. What would shipping to 53406 in Wisconsin be? I've been told that the '09 and '10 were different to increase the steering angle. | ||
| _buelligan_ |
Any of the XB12X or XT Triple trees will add an additional 1.5 degrees to the steering rake from what my 2006, 2008, and 2010 service manual specifications lists. | ||
| Brucespoint |
Just the X's, I seem to remember. we cross posted, manuals buried here, if it sez so, so it be. (Message edited by brucespoint on June 26, 2019) | ||
| Froggy |
Only the 2008-2010 X's have the increased rake trees. The 2006/2007 X and 2008-2010 XT use the same "no rake" trees. | ||
| Mbest |
The "rake is the same on both of the tree's. The "trail" is what changes, and then only if you use the non-axel-offset lower fork tubes with the 2008 and up triple clamps. All geometry changes from the forward positioning of the tubes for the better steering sweep lock to lock is completely brought back to same as the pre 2008 because the axel is moved back the same amount as the fork tubes are moved forward. You can reduce the rather long "trail" of your stock geometry by using the forward offset triple trees with the stock non-offset lowers on the pre 2008 bikes and by using the non-offset lower 47mm axel ends from an 1125 on your XB12X. The XT bikes had the straight ends on all years with 43mm tubes so just adding the 2008plus trees on those does it too | ||
| Tootal |
Mbest is correct. We say rake but trail is what we meant. So my 06 trees are the same as your XT. If you're wanting a direct replacement then that's what you want. If you're wanting a smaller turning radius than stock then you need the 08+ X trees. That's what I have on my 06 now. So the question is are you replacing bent or broken trees and want to stay stock or are you wanting to change your geometry? | ||
| Tootal |
Email sent. | ||
| Save_ferris |
Tootal, Mbest, and Froggy. Thanks guys. What an awesome community. | ||
| Brucespoint |
All Done here Froggy, Please delete my posts here b. |
