wp50mm conventional on kx500?

rulingtheroost
Just picked up a 1993 kx 500 I want to use for moto and trial use. I'm a big boy 6.4.. 300lbs and I've got a complete front end off a 99' ktm 380 wp 50 extreme with .52 springs.Was wondering if anybody has tried bolting one of these frontends on a jap bike I'm hoping the steering head bearings/races are the same plus it would be nice to have the brembo front brake thanks.
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mark1960
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mark1960 8/10/2016 6:33pm
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Back in 96 i had these on my ktm, emig made the outstanding clamps.
After 3 revalves they were still not good. Deflection and hashness or then bottoming.
Wasted too much time fiddling instead of riding.
Maybe the 99 had changes internally.
I ended up giving them back for the upside downs, that were again only maginally better.

Maybe a thought us to sell the ktm forks for the last rm conventionals?
rulingtheroost 8/11/2016 2:41am
8/11/2016 2:41am
mark1960 wrote:
Back in 96 i had these on my ktm, emig made the outstanding clamps. After 3 revalves they were still not good. Deflection and hashness or...
Back in 96 i had these on my ktm, emig made the outstanding clamps.
After 3 revalves they were still not good. Deflection and hashness or then bottoming.
Wasted too much time fiddling instead of riding.
Maybe the 99 had changes internally.
I ended up giving them back for the upside downs, that were again only maginally better.

Maybe a thought us to sell the ktm forks for the last rm conventionals?
Thanks for your reply but those 96' forks where marzokes you had not wp's the 50mm wp forks where legendary off road thats why I'm interested in using them
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mark1960 8/11/2016 1:31pm
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mark1960 wrote:
Back in 96 i had these on my ktm, emig made the outstanding clamps. After 3 revalves they were still not good. Deflection and hashness or...
Back in 96 i had these on my ktm, emig made the outstanding clamps.
After 3 revalves they were still not good. Deflection and hashness or then bottoming.
Wasted too much time fiddling instead of riding.
Maybe the 99 had changes internally.
I ended up giving them back for the upside downs, that were again only maginally better.

Maybe a thought us to sell the ktm forks for the last rm conventionals?
rulingtheroost wrote:
Thanks for your reply but those 96' forks where marzokes you had not wp's the 50mm wp forks where legendary off road thats why I'm interested...
Thanks for your reply but those 96' forks where marzokes you had not wp's the 50mm wp forks where legendary off road thats why I'm interested in using them
Sorry i was wrong.

Call Emig if you cant piece together clamps yourself. His clamps were a work of art.

Make sure you calculate fork clamp offset and fork lug offset.

Good luck.

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Beast666 8/12/2016 10:29am
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Find a set of 89 KX500 forks and clamps. Perhaphs the best set of conventional production forks ever made.
rulingtheroost 8/12/2016 11:33am
8/12/2016 11:33am
Beast666 wrote:
Find a set of 89 KX500 forks and clamps. Perhaphs the best set of conventional production forks ever made.
I agree but I already have this setup so it doesn't cost me anything plus you get the awesome KTM from brake
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mark1960 8/12/2016 6:43pm
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I dont recal the ktm brakes in late 90's being awsome,
Only after better pads, stainless line and Honda lever/ master cylinder.
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Zerofear66 10/9/2018 11:13am
10/9/2018 11:13am
I put a set of KYB SSS fork on my K5 off a 2014 YZ450
Slid right in.
Couldnt be happier.
Best fork Ive ever ridden.

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