That's fair enough - you are right the Magura radial caliper looks beautiful!

I can appreciate you might have TUV type approval issues in Austria - but I can't believe the Braking Wave/Brembo combination don't comply - although I admit I am not fully aware of the procedures there...

I think it is an excellent improvement you are undertaking, and can appreciate you are not intending to race/rally with this machine - even though you certainly could with the amount you are doing to it!

Can't wait to see the finished result!

J xx

I guess it would be impossible to get 'typisiert' (legalized) in Austria, but we will do so in Germany. One more motivation for this project, since I have been planning to go to Germany anyway.

Brake assembly would probably not be a big issue, but fork conversion and wheel width (won't change diameter after all!) definitely is when using custom cnc'd parts without any paperwork or numbering or whatever. We cannot afford doing any sort of crash tests, so they need to believe us/me it will work. Also there are so many difficult issues with certain clearance, steering angle, tire measurements, they actually would need to check accurately if they are paranoid.

So I guess this is the deal:
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they will get it done in a pragmatical way
and I will most gladly and happily pay
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aehem.
--> Ok.

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Sorry for this.

Very nice looking mod, but isn't it expensive?

What is the difference between UPSD and a regular?

From the economic standpoint such a modification is horrific. There is no way around this finding. It is a waste of money. It would probably be cheapest and easiest to run a motorcycle without any modifications until it will be sold. I am very sorry that in my life there was only 1 motorcycle that I kept unchanged. It got sold after half a year of usage, so there actually wasn't a big amount of time for doing modifications. But it was a very nice bike, definitely.

Technically there are some reasons to upgrade suspension technology for cheap standard motorcycles like the current XT series. I personally think there is more use in doing so than upgrading engine performance which will be kept stock level (I very much believe, I really do, yes).

I will not even mention that I like these things that I am doing, winter is cold over here, lots of snow, there has always been a strange urge for doing long offroad distances far south, whatever...

Getting old.

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Ok, i's moving forward now. Yeah. Red Talon hubs came in yesterday. Rear Excel rim 3,00"x17" is there as well. Today I borrowed an EXC front wheel to be able to move my Tenere from the garage into the van. Friday it will be hauled to the shop. From then on we will count days.
I already know, the front brake project will become more difficult than we thought. Most likely the nice magura caliper will not fit, since it is way to wide for enduro 21" wheel spoke scheme. But this will be worked on by professionals. At current I cannot tell what the result will be. Minimum solution would be JMo's stock caliper solution while I would prefer the Braking offroad caliper (2 piston system) which will fit enduro wheels and is not too expensive.
Since I am willing to sell all my stock parts, it would probably be better not to use half of my stock front brake.

I need to say, when listening inside carefully, I am slightly, slowly, softly starting to feel a light touch of impatience after two months of fiddling around with nasty small parts and waiting.

blowup

Update: final preview before new wheels are going to be made (borrowed front wheel):
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Everything seems to fit perfectly, but fork makes strange noise when being engaged with my total weight. Need to check. That sound definitely does not originate from fender installation.

My new wheels
 

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Tenere is at wheel and brake shop (they do supermoto and MX conversions mostly) for finishing the project. They will also legalize everything, including the previous fork conversion. Final step will be the suspension fine tuning and optimal setup to be done at the previous shop, my WP suspension professionals who did the fork and triple clamp stuff.

They fitted new front wheel with mentioned Magura radial caliper :eusa_clap:
No further information or picture at current, though.

those forks look the dog's

suprised you didnt go with an 18 rear wheel but then i guess the Ten is not intended as your sole off road bike as you have the Wr for that.:Gangsta2_9BI664:very bling i like those talon huns and they suit the white ten a treat

Under the impression of JMo's work, I have been struggling with that 18" issue for 2 months.

Well, the rear layout does not perfectly correspond with an 18" wheel, depending on rear tire and size. Since for me there are no severe technical reasons to go with 18", I kept things easy, finally. As opposed to the JMo conversion there is no special dedication for my resulting chassis. No need for certain racing tires or whatever.

On the other hand I do not like to prolong center stand by welding upon it. I do not want to feed in a longer chain and I do not want to compromise rear swingarm material by dirt getting wrapped within nobby tire and swing arm surface into a very narrow gap. Also I do not want to have this bike unnecessarily elevated. And finally, I will put in an aftermarked rear shock and this way try to increase rear travel a bit, but on the other hand keep stock exhaust system (since I consider it quite well done). So, there is no use in further reducing tire/exhaust clearance by means of an 18" rear wheel.

Apart from that, I like to get legalized tire dimensions 140/80-17 and 130/80-17 as well without consideration of manufacturer. With 140/80-18 this would definitely use up any clearance available and would probably lead to problems.

As soon as it became clear an excel rim with 17'" x 3,00" is available, I decided to go with it (as opposed to 17" x 3,5" supermoto size which might have forced me to go with 18" x 2,5" to avoid running an unnecessarily wide rear rim).

I believe, for my purpose this solution is best. I want this Tenere to stay allround and easy going. No problematic details or worryabouts. I think it will save me days of fiddling with nasty details.
Also, there are lots of different tire tread patterns available with 17" tires as well. No need to go with deserts. No racing, so far... :004:

Even in case of a decision to go with 18" rear wheel at some later point of time, this would mean a new rim and new spokes (and then, deal with the problems mentioned). Not extremely expensive and at least doable, just in case.

Regards, Phil

fair point what colour rims did you go for ?