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Title: What is better than a tiger?
Post by: Patrick on June 12, 2006, 10:26:08 AM

Right. TWO tigers are better than only one.

(http://www.rielo.de/XTiger/bilder/stufe1/tiggerse1.jpg)

In February, the Best Wife In The World had a weak moment. She agreed to my idea of having two bikes: one for traveling and touring on the road, the other one for having fun beside the (paved) road.

So I went off and bought a... steamer. It was a very good deal. Then I bought some goodies for it: White Power upside down fork, KTM LC4 Front wheel with Excel rims, 320mm floating brake disk, 4 piston brake calipers, Magura aluminium handle bar, a lightweight battery and so on.

This weekend I could take a first ride at an offroad training event. Although there still has to be done a lot of adjusting and altough the bike is far away from being able to become road legal, it was helluva fun to ride!

(http://www.rielo.de/XTiger/bilder/stufe1/IMG_5562.JPG)

(http://www.rielo.de/XTiger/bilder/stufe1/IMG_5563.JPG)

Up to now the bike lost about 15 kg of weight. The target is to drop the weight below 200 kg ready-to-ride without fuel (i.e. losing another 25 kg will be neccessary) and archieving road-legallity.

A long way to go, but the start is very promising...

Have fun!

Patrick

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Post by: Brother Number One on June 12, 2006, 05:10:14 PM

BMW badge :?:

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Post by: Patrick on June 12, 2006, 07:38:10 PM

Quote from: "Brother Number One"BMW badge :?:

Yeah, my mech tried to be funny...

Have fun!

Patrick

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Post by: apache on June 13, 2006, 07:10:43 PM

What bike did you pirate the forks from? looks like a nice setup.

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Post by: Patrick on June 13, 2006, 10:23:28 PM

They come from a KTM SMC. Do you like to see, what they are capable of?

Have fun!

Patrick

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Post by: apache on June 17, 2006, 04:26:57 PM

Sure would, What was involved in the change over? triple clamps have to be changed? very nice setup.

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Post by: Mudhen on June 18, 2006, 11:56:56 AM

Quote from: "apache"Triple clamps have to be changed?

+1 on wanting to see/hear about that.

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Post by: Patrick on June 18, 2006, 08:28:30 PM

Yeah, of course.

The triple clamps originally come - just as the forks - from a KTM SMC. I needed them to install 1) the forks and 2) a 4 piston brake caliper (this one needs some space).

Here are some pics:

(http://www.rielo.de/XTiger/bilder/stufe1/IMG_5474.JPG)

(http://www.rielo.de/XTiger/bilder/stufe1/IMG_5615.JPG)

I bought them (including the brakes) from a guy who had them in his Africa Twin. Pics of his setup can be seen here: http://www.rielo.de/XTiger/gabel.htm (http://www.rielo.de/XTiger/gabel.htm)

Of course, a new steering shaft (correct word?) had to be made.

Have fun!

Patrick

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