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  1. XSJoel

    Fitting modern front in on a 1977 xs400D

    Old motorcycles are gonna cost you some cash. So if you aren't prepared to drop some coin, I would step back and reevaluate your situation. The good thing about these old bikes is the ability for anyone with basic mechanical experience to bust into them and get them running. You need a friend...
  2. XSJoel

    Fitting modern front in on a 1977 xs400D

    I don't know how much it is to rebuild forks, but I would be guessing it would just be a set of seals and fork oil which is cheap. If you current rotor is good, you don't need a new one, so that is free, bracket is a piece of 12mm thick aluminum which would be cheap, just need to cut it and the...
  3. XSJoel

    Fitting modern front in on a 1977 xs400D

    You are overthinking it. Use the stock replacement rotors like anyone with an XS400 would use. Then you adapt a caliper to your fork leg caliper mounts. Pretty simple actually. I am sure an R1/R6/FZ1/FZ6 rotor would work as your XS400 is probably pretty similar to an XS650. Here is the thread on...
  4. XSJoel

    Fitting modern front in on a 1977 xs400D

    I have an XS650, but people have made brackets pretty easily to fit modern sportbike brakes on. I am actually working on putting an R1 caliper on my stock rotors and forks.
  5. XSJoel

    Another New Guy and Simplex/Boardtrack Project

    Is Daddio a part time model? Because he is super good at posin'.
  6. XSJoel

    Fitting modern front in on a 1977 xs400D

    That's too bad. Don't have it right off hand. He has what he needs to find what he wants.
  7. XSJoel

    Fitting modern front in on a 1977 xs400D

    No, there's a way better thread over on the 650 side of this site.
  8. XSJoel

    Fitting modern front in on a 1977 xs400D

    Wrong post, there is a great post about specifically the neck tube modification required and all sorts of neck tube information.
  9. XSJoel

    Fitting modern front in on a 1977 xs400D

    Might try looking over at xs650.com, they have some great information there that will help you. And I definitely don't mean make a thread like this over there. Search, it works.
  10. XSJoel

    Another New Guy and Simplex/Boardtrack Project

    That's crap Daddio. Just to look cool to people you don't even know? Must be a sad existence.
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