Mille swingarm swap

[sl1000_dk]

Hey, Martin, you beat me to it!


Not linked from within your website at the moment - unless I missed something

Do you mean that you can´t se the links on my site. That is correct, i´m making a new website, and will not update the old one.

There will not be many changes from the old one, i will just fresh it up a bit.

[spew]

4. I've got a Mille Ohlins fitted (with ride height adjustment, don't know the number) and can't remember which triangles/dogbone I need to suit the Mille arm. This is a photo of what's currently fitted, can you anyone shed some light on this?

Hi Simon,

If you're in a position to measure the distance between the bolts on the triangles and the length of the dogbone (in which case you'll probably be lying on the floor), then this post tells you what you've got:

http://www.apriliaforum.com/forums/show ... stcount=17

To me, it looks like you have the Falco triangles and dogbone. The distances between the mounting points on the triangle appear pretty much equidistant, which points to Falco triangles. And the RSV dogbone is much longer than the Falco one, so this again points to the Falco dogbone.

My setup has RSV 2003 triangles, dogbone and Ohlins shock, and the dogbone actually rubs on the NWS hugger, it's that much longer than the Falco item.

So it may well be that you have one of the rare Ohlins shocks made to fit the early 1998-2000 RSVs. I presume that the ride and handling is what you'd expect? If so, it sounds like you can just swap over the swingers and won't need to change anything else. As far as I was aware, as long as the triangles, dogbone and shock are all swapped over as a matched set, then you're good to go, irrespective of swingarm.

However please don't just take my word for it...

Simon

First time I've looked on here since selling the bike . I don't know what year the ohlins is (I bought it from someone on the forum) but it definitely kept the falco triangles and dogbones as I wanted an easy life.

It sounds as though the front end is OK which I'm glad to hear - you mentioned some sort of tank slapper which neither me or the other owner ever had. He's a pretty good mate so he would have told me. The only known incident is the time I came home to find it on its side.

Hope you're enjoying the bike. I noticed you said it was a bit grimy which surprised me as I had it fully valetted before you bought it ??!!

[D-Rider]

Hi Simon. A couple of weekends have gone by - did you manage to do the swinger swap?

[minime]

Def. looks like Falco/early mille (pre 2000) triangle.