1992 R100RT Front Fork Upgrade

With the riding season slowly coming to an end here in Western Canada, my thoughts are looking at overhauling the front forks and install performance internals such as Racetech emulators. Has anyone gone down this road, thus for the question on the board.

Yup. I was delighted with the results. Tell RaceTech what sort of riding you will do and they will help with the set up decisions. Re springs: I've put RT springs in a few bikes. If you are iffy about which rate to get, I'd go with the lighter springs.

http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?42105-Gold-Valve-Emulator&highlight=Gold+Valve

Agree completely with the RaceTech suggestion including using their springs. A bit finicky to set up because the emulators have to be removed to tune them, but the database of initial settings is pretty good. LEarn what is used to adjust what, for instance, fluid weight is used to adjust rebound damping but not compression damping. Not necessarily intuitive.

I believe that I was Race Tech's first customer for this style of fork (my 85 has Brembo fork legs, but the Showas used after that certainly look the same except for the black paint job). At all events the Race Tech folks were helpful and I really like the results. They had to do a bit of machine work on the legs, but they were happy to record exactly what they did against the possibility of getting more customers with those forks. I'm only 30 min from their shop, so it was easy to sit down and talk through what I needed. I just brought in both fork legs - fully assembled and they took it from there.

Much less dive and repeated sharp hits like BOT's dots on the freeway just get soaked up - no fuss.

b25bsaboy said:

With the riding season slowly coming to an end here in Western Canada, my thoughts are looking at overhauling the front forks and install performance internals such as Racetech emulators. Has anyone gone down this road, thus for the question on the board.

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Just a short up date in that I found a guy with the help of our local Air Head Marshall for the ABC in Medicine Hat who will rebuild the front forks as there maybe some machining involved and I for one do not have the lathe to do this.
On another note I came across a almost brand new rear shock, Progressive, put them on and went for a short ride after installing it. WOW what a difference in the handling. The more I ride the R100RT, the more I am really beginning to like this ride.
I am beginning to see that with some modern upgrades, these later R100RT can be and are a good ride. The R1200 RT has not moved an inch all summer, as I prefer to swing my leg over the R100RT or the little brother, the R75/6.

Not sure how machining is required for a front fork overhaul. I am another fan of RaceTech springs and emulators and have them on my '92RS.