I saw an interesting machine the other day. It was a Honda 250R with inverted forks! I have an 85 myself and was wondering if anybody knows how to do this mod?

 

Try the following website. The guy is pretty well into 250R's and has just done such a thing. If you e-mail him he'll tell you more.
www.atc250rlen.homestead.com/atc.html
Regards

Nik

 

Thanks.

 

Why would you want to invert the forks ?? Are there advantages to doing this , and what are they ??

 

What do you mean by inverted?

 

Back in the day, all the forks were of the same design on the Honda high performance three wheelers. These were the same telescopic design used on the dirt bikes. By 88 or 89 most of the motocross bikes started using inverted forks. They are sometimes called upside down forks by the old timers. This means that the bottom part of the fork telescopes into the upper part. This allows for a more rigid assembly because you can make everything bigger.
Also, one of the big advantages to running a more modern fork would be complete adjustability. They are compression and rebound adjustable.
With the old style forks, there is a lot of flex, which can translate into some bad handling. When I was motocross racing, I usually bent a fork tube at least once a season. When I got on a bike with inverted forks, I never had anything similar happen.
You probably won't notice a difference unless you have ridden both types of machine hard enough to make the fork flex or deflect, and then you will be able to tell what I am talking about. Do this, park your wheeler next to any fairly modern motocrosser and compare the forks. You will see that your setup looks very small in comparison. If Honda were still building three wheelers, they would have the same style of forks and rear suspension as the cr's. They did back in the day.

 

OK, thanks.