SBK triples on 695?

[Banned]

I have searched and found that the SBK triples will be a direct fit for some Monster models. I have not seen where anyone has done this on a 695. Is it a direct fit? May be cheaper than having stock top machined as some on ebay come with the trees. I know the offfset is a bit different than on the stock trees, what negative affect does this have if any. I would assume you could put the forks a little lower or higher in the trees to change the rake. I am looking at this to do an SBK fork swap.

[caperix]

I have done the other way 749 frame with monster triples.  The stem on the non adjustable triples is longer than on the monster so it will have to be swapped or spacers installed to make them work.  The 6mm difference in offset, 30mm Monster 36mm SBK will prob be hard to make up for with adjusting the forks.  I know the old monster developed some horible handling caracteristics with SBK tripples but they had a different offset than your 695 so it may not be as much of an issue.  Boring the top & spacing the bottom is still prob the simplest solution to installing SBK forks.

[DarkMonster620]

Check this out

http://www.speedymoto.com/products/triple-clamps/triple-clamp-sets/

[Banned]

Thanks for the info and the link.

[Ddan]

Check this out

http://www.speedymoto.com/products/triple-clamps/triple-clamp-sets/

Wow.  Nice.   Spendy  



Alternatively, there is this:

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  Boring the top & spacing the bottom is still prob the simplest solution to installing SBK forks.

http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=67234.msg1243745#msg1243745

It's not very blingy, but it works.  It was nice to not have to explain all the details to Kevin, I told him what I was doing and he made it fit.  Assembly was a piece of cake.

[brad black]

The bearings are the same, the stem length varies. You can swap stems on sbk with your monster if they are the same style - silver ones. The stem screws in on the grey ones.

[zippsub9]

I would be mindful of geometry and measure stock rake and trail prior to swap.  The offset is only one piece of the equation and even if you get trees to work with stem length and/or eccentric steering tubes, you may not be able achieve the same rake and trail through height setting on the forks.  The frame neck accounts for much of this so make sure you compare stock rake and trail prior to only looking at one piece of the equation.  I just put an 848 on my 1100 front end.   I just bored out a different monster top clamp and shimmed the bottom triple to fit the forks.  I adjusted ride height as well and then determine the weight bias you want.   My rear end does not have an adjustable ride height which sucks, that will help you if you can play with the rear.  The adjustable trees are nice, but pricey as you see.  I can send pics if that would help as well.  By the way, there is a great set of 848 forks on the for sale board now.  They are 53 top and bottom with full adjustability.