MOPED ARMY

They are heavy. I will be breaking them down here in a few days for heavier fork springs, new seals, wheel bearings and powdercoat; so I will weigh them while they're off the bike. Rm80 forks have smaller tubes & lowers and are considerably lighter.

The stock kx80 fork springs dive pretty hard on hard braking and hit the head bolts on the lifan 125 so I did some research and found stock springs are .25kg/mm you can get kx80 specific springs up to about .31kg/mm but they are $100+ and will get cut anyway. So I ordered a pair of these 1970's fork springs they look beefy, have the same OD as the stock kx80 springs, and were $25 shipped. hopefully they are much more stiff.

This is what they are going on now:

With the bigger forks and motor the bike is at least 1.5x heavier than a stock tomos

http://deadped.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-puchonda.html

CR80 forks on a pinto aint no thang. Pretty much direct swap. No machining required - just a spacer. Bearings are exact same size.

They are somewhat heavy compared to stock forks but they are aluminum lowers and an aluminum wheel which is ultra light. My bike simply feels more solid with them.

I have no issue with my stock springs and 15w oil. Then again I don't have a 40 lb engine on my bike. (edited)

So two questions the first is kinda stupid I admit but I want to make absolutely sure

1. Only the spring has to be cut to get these at the right height. No cutting of the actual tube?

2. Has anybody fabbed a mount the allows a stock hobbit headlight to go on. If so please direct me to the solution. I want to keep my stock headlight.

"safety first but i don't wear a helmet" hahaha

Don't smash it quite yet. Put it in a box and when u realize its extreme

Utility take it out of the box and enjoy a unit that can pack a

Whole lot of wire. And yea when u also tell us / me u plan on a hardwire

Just keep it so after you get your rod in your tibia because some

Idiot rode you down with their pickup

You can rewire your wonderful hobbit for all sorts of lights and have a nice place to stow the stuff.

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your correct..i will save it..for someone that needs it....and i will never ride without proper lites and brake lites....it's an 83 and im keeping the stock tail lite and will get some better looking turn signals...as i enjoy night riding and not getting rear ended...lol

OK I'm Waaaaayyyyyyyyy of topic again

I just spent a major part of sat with my mechanic who was helping me disassemble the set of. Kx 80 forks that I bought off the forum. They had

Years of water and corrosion at the bottom probably due to power Washing and

No Maintainance. Now finally got them apart and will attempt to clean the internals. I found a rebuild on YouTube and I think my internals match a 91 or so fork so I ordered seals off ebay. Aftermarket ! The rust and corrosion was pretty extensive but we hope we can clean it up seeing that very few parts are easily available. .....sounds mopedish!!! After dealing with this any future reader should be very wary of such an old fork if it isn't totally broken Down and inspected prior to purchase.

never had k10s but the kx80 fork tubes I have are a whopping 38mm making them very heavy. I scored some rm80 forks that have smaller diameter tubes and they feel maybe 25-30% lighter... I cant imagine those k10 forks to be that heavy ( I posted the total weight somewhere in this thread)