Forking about
After sorting my rear shock out, thoughts moved to suspension setup and the front end suddenly looked less than sorted. A short bit of messaging to Classic Racing Green had me working on a plan. The VFR had a Honda CBR600 F3 front end stuck on it when I converted the bike a couple of years ago for racing. Other than change some fork seals and a fluid change, I didn't really play about with the forks much. Andy at Classic Racing Green sent me to the Race Tech website where, after plugging in some details, it recommended some rather heavy fork springs. This was for a CBR600 F3 however and not a lardy VFR750 but even then we thought it was a bit excessive. The front spring rate I was being recommended was: 1.24 kg/mm where the stock rate was: 0.7 kg/mm. Now normally you work in Newtons when doing fork setup (multiply by gravity 9.81) so that does need taking into account here but this spring rate seemed to high to Andy. I could however manipulate the figures it would give