I recently purchased a garelli supersport XL (my first moped) and the forks and the assembly are very rusty. i was wondering if i could put forks from another moped on my garelli like say forks from a maxi or tomos. is this possible? if so what modifying would i have to do to make it work. any information will help me alot.
Evan
got a pic i will buy them
dont get rid of the forks.
keep yours.
wire brush.
but yea you can adapt other forks
realy tho smear gojo and just wire brush it
and if all else fails i have a set that are red. but just use yours.
your ped is brown. so is rust
wire wheel, wire brush, steel wool, elbow grease, it'll come off. Garelli forks are pretty nice, as far as stock moped forks go. I wouldn't bother with Maxi stuff, though Tomos is nice.
I had some fork that were rust and painted. Alot of wire wool and sandpaper later I have a pair of shiny steel forks...
Or get them rechromed.
One of the Cutters put new Tomos forks on a Garelli. Look great, work great, and since he put a Tomos wheel on there too, he now has awesome brakes. Apparently it "wasn't that hard" though I don't know exactly what that means.
we just put some EBR's on a garelli but you have to find maxi races and such.
^so EBRs for a maxi would work? what all is involved????
yes. You need to find maxi bearings, bearing cups, and races. Find someone that has old maxi forks with all of the goods and you should be good. I know benji has new ones and is probably easier than trying to go find them.
oh and fyi EBRs are a bitch to put on. Even with experience.
thanks for the help, tonight i cleaned up the rear shocks and the rear fender support. looks great i just dont know when i wanna dive into the forks. could be a project
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