forcelle forks

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gidday everybody.
picking up on an old thread on your forum, i have a set of 42mm forcelle quick release forks.
i know they are really rare as your members  identified, but i need to know what fork oil would work best and the quantities.
they are fitted to my Moto Martin k1.
any info or details would be great please.
cheers hillbone
 
by the way......
the member that had the 42 mm forks was "bregazane". i have tried to email him with no luck at this stage. if anyone knows how to get in touch with him, that would be great. cheers hillbone
 
If I remember right Steve couldn't find a part for them.I would expect similar to other conventional forks,air gap to allow as much travel as possible.Start at 160mm and monitor travel with a cable tie and add as needed.Same with oil wt.My guess is they predate the M1R one leg for each damping function.MAYBE
 
happy to send some photos of the forks and the bike. how do i do it?
can someone send some details on howto add a photos. cheers and thanks for the feed back. steve replied with some info. i drained 300 mm out of each leg. i was surprised there was that much oil in there.
regards hillbone
 
Look and you will find.

http://www.laverdaforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,80308.0.html

http://www.laverdaforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,83074.0.html
 
Romeo.D said:
I am looking for this fork since long time, i anibody have one for sale i would like to have it for my Nico Bakker bike.
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I case i found one Forcella Italia F1 fork , i can svap or sale Marchochi 38mm wich is original for AP Lockhed brakes.
 
Steve, Hillbone,
Any info you have on the forks would be very much appreciated. My Bimota SB4 has the 40mm Forcelle quick release fork with adjustable damping. These shocks need a rework and any info will help.

Cheers
 
Howdie Cowdie.
mate, i have had no luck at all in info excepting for the help from the Laverda lads on the forum , which has off course helped. i had my mechanic help me and we ended up measuring 300 mm using the forum readers theory. i used 10 weight.
there are no pictures or anything on the web that i can see. 
so i dont know whats holding up my front wheel at all coz these forks dont seem to exist. if you send me an email address i will send you a photo of the bike and forks. your readers seemed to like it a lot.
cheers hillbone
 
What are these?

http://www.befr.ebay.be/itm/Gabel-Telegabel-front-fork-FORCELLE-ITALIA-Ang-R432-/191164776744?pt=Motorrad_Kraftradteile&hash=item2c824f0128
 
They look just like the ones I sold to Bob Dixon for ?400...... Bugger  ::).

Forcelle Italia grew out of the ashes of Cerriani but that is about all I know about them. Nice forks.


    Keith
 
3patC said:
What are these?

http://www.befr.ebay.be/itm/Gabel-Telegabel-front-fork-FORCELLE-ITALIA-Ang-R432-/191164776744?pt=Motorrad_Kraftradteile&hash=item2c824f0128
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Almost, the one i am looking are bit difent . You can open it down to for fast wheel change.
 
They seem to have made numerous different variations, all in terribly small quantities.  The ones linked by Pat are the same as I have on the RGA, except mine have the caliper mounts to suit the early Brembo 4-spots / 320mm disk.  Although I paid a reasonable sum for them they were certainly cheaper than those ones!

I got mine from Thomas in Sweden who had to do a lot of work to them to get them working even vaguely ok. A set of modern Japanese RSU 41 or 43mm forks will easily outperform these old things but they do look terribly cool - even more so the ones with the quick release axle clamp. :)
 
I bought them new with triple clamps together with new brakes and Astralites.
Forks was a night mare and delivery time for parts was loooooong....
I'd go for Todd path, installing a cartridge in an old fork.

However, you cant over value looking cool... :)
 
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