REVIEWS - Fork Stiffeners from 56oval - by 50ccchick

This is going to be a pretty simple review for a pretty simple yet highly effective product - Fork Stiffeners from 56oval@comcast.com.

If you've ever had your 50 forks apart to put new springs on etc. you probably realized just how flimsy the fork lowers are. After all, the bike wasn't meant to hold 150-200 pounds of grown-up. So, when you get those extra pounds on those forks and you start jumping on 'em or crashing on them, the lowers tend to bend like fish hooks. Fork Stiffeners can help stop this from happening. These particular fork stiffeners from 56oval are basically two hardened Aircraft Grade Aluminum rods that slip into the fork lowers and help fortify them so they cannot bend. They are machined to fit super snuggly in the lowers so you do not get any annoying clanking. And when I say snug, I mean snug! One of my fork lowers was already out of round so I had to take a rubber mallet and pound the fs in a bit. BTW: These stiffeners are also fairly light. They probably add about a pound or so to your front end.

After riding around for awhile, crashing quite a few times, and wheelying with these stiffeners in, I have seen no bending in my front fork lowers at all. I'd say this $35 was a good investment to keep me from having to spend $150 on fork lower replacements. This product comes with detailed instructions and good, fast customer service.

If you'd like to order some Fork Stiffeners for your bike, contact 56oval@comcast.net

About the Author: Pam aka 50ccchick, your MTTM site hostess- I started riding motorcycles when I was about 5. We had a little Yamaha 80, street legal, that I used to tear around the backyard on. That was, until I got more interested in riding and raising horses. So the motorcycle went by the way side for years until my ex got an old Yamaha 750 at a garage sale and set about fixing it up so we could take rides together. Course I wanted to drive, so after my divorce, I went out and got a Honda Shadow 600, then an ACE 750. One night while watching TV I saw these old people riding around on kids motorbikes and it looked like a hell of a lotta fun. So, I went out and got a fiddy and since then I've been having a blast fixing it up and riding and racing it around.

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