Part 1 of WP48 conversion finished today. I just had a short visit at the shop. These are low quality shots with mobile.

http://picasaweb.google.com/flatboarder/Tenere

New Excel Talon wheels (red/black) will be made in Feb. Upper fork crown is tailormade from CNC'd Aluminium and will be anodized red. It locates WP48 fork (89cm of length) 3cm downward compared to stock fork (90cm of lengt) but allows relocating it upward in case. 25cm of travel compared to 21cm stock. Serious damping. Hope we can keep that 25cm when testing full travel without hitting radiator by removing fork springs. Lower crown is from stock KTM 690er Enduro. Works unchanged, but will slightly modify limiter bolts.

There is no big change at riding geometry. We are trying to keep everything near to stock level. Will at max gain 2cm of height as soon as 18" rear wheel is used, but no more than that. Hopefully less.

Suspension feels completely different compared to stock.

Thanks to JMo for her inspiring articles and work. This will not at all be a copy. We will do it quite differently instead, but she proved feasibility of such a conversion and as soon as I saw hers, I decided to start my own project (which has been in my mind since I bought the Tenere).