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[skidlids]

Originally Posted by bally71

what's the advantage with the 996 internals?

They are intended for a Sports bike unlike the internals in ST and Monster S4 forks

Originally Posted by bally71

And wouldn't they be better off in 996 forks?

Not when you see the state of the outside of the 996 forks, the braided hoses had rubbed through the anodising and then the corrosion set in, talk about scabby, those parts will be heading for the skip. Mind you it did make them very cheap.
Besides my 996 has already had its forks upgraded, re-anodised, Ti coated and billet lowers with 40mm mount for the 6-pot Calipers

[skidlids]

I'm not the first to do it by a long way, Chaz has been doing the fork conversion for a few years now and Tom Roberts and Simon Allen have had theirs done,
But when searching for more info on it I came across this
http://www.ducatisuite.com/monstersbkforks.html

And there are few mentions of it in the DSC archives

[bally71]

Suspension scares me .. the thought of taking forks apart makes me positively poo my pants

[skidlids]

I first started pulling forks apart in 1980 to convert my 400/4 to a twin disc front end with better calipers, so i used the lowers from an XS250

one bike I wish i still had