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Fork Brace for a GSX 1250 FA 2012 model

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Post  Cheazdad Fri 29 Jun 2018, 7:49 am

Does anyone have any experience with folk braces mounted to their bike, I'm wanting to buy one but apart from the Holeshot one in America I can't seem to find any others that are manufactured for the bike.

If you know of someone who makes them, or have one fitted to your bike I'd be interested to know a bit more about it. 

Thanks in advance

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Post  gus Fri 29 Jun 2018, 9:15 am

I have on fitted to my 1200 .
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Post  mtbeerwah Fri 29 Jun 2018, 4:00 pm

superbrace.com

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Post  Ewok1958 Sat 30 Jun 2018, 4:55 pm

I didn't fit one to the 1250 because, as I understand it, I'd have had to remove the stone deflector to fit it. No way I'd get rid of that on our roads as the smallest stone chip can lead to you having to re-chrome the forks.
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Post  Cheazdad Sat 30 Jun 2018, 5:19 pm

gus wrote:I have on fitted to my 1200 .

Did you notice any difference at all when it was fitted ?

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Post  miller Sat 30 Jun 2018, 7:41 pm

Hi Cheazdad, have had a Holeshot forkbrace on my 08 1250 for near 10 years (just clicked 171,000 today). When I fitted the brace it made a big difference from first ride . I too did not like the idea of the fork guards being removed so I made my own out of S/Steel 75mm 1.6 tube . Her is a picture of how it looks.
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Post  reddog Sun 01 Jul 2018, 8:15 am

I'm not sure why they couldn't have been manufactured with a built in fork protector or a way to reuse the old ones. I'll look into 3d printing some soon for my bike. Once only had the brace on for less than 5000kms, but I revalved and resprung the front forks at the same time. So far the whole package has made the bike more stable in the corners and under braking
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Post  miller Sun 01 Jul 2018, 8:40 am

I have done the same to my forks ,valves springs and brace plus wave discs ,huge difference . Would like to show you the fork protectors but can't work out how to upload pics so will give a link to Maximum Suzuki where i have a pic of the fork protectors. https://www.maximum-suzuki.com/forums/index.php?topic=99048.0 . About 2/3 way down will see a post by me.
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Post  mtbeerwah Sun 01 Jul 2018, 6:36 pm

If you've got material to make guards, simple enough to do.  But on both my Gen1 and Gen2,  I've got leg socks, made out of wetsuit material with velcro to hold them on.
You can put them on, and take them off in seconds. 
I've had them on my Gen2 for about 10yrs. They've never fallen off and only slightly deteriated in that time. The socks themselves have about 130000k's on them. I put them on at about 75000k's.
Love them to death. Quick and simple.

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Post  Mac 11 Sun 09 Sep 2018, 7:53 pm

Try these guys.
Max mc direct out of Japan they got one called coerce $176.00 delivered.

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