CB550 Inverted Front End Swap & Cost

[@donovanlucibello379]

Easy to follow & straight forward, thanks!

[@chekovll]

very informative, so you put gsxr 750 forks with Hayabusa wheel and rotors.

[@michaels.333]

Thanks, and yeah. but if you just plan on running factory GSXR wheels instead of aftermarket spoked wheels (like I plan on) then all you need is the wheel and rotors that fit your make and model of GSXR fork. I only ran the busa wheel and rotors because I plan on swapping it out for a custom spoke wheel that uses the busa parts.

[@chekovll]

@@michaels.333 what about your rear wheel, you have stock cb550 brake and wheel?

[@michaels.333]

The rear hub is stock, I just rebuilt the drum brakes in it and installed new bearings. I have an excel wheel that is 4.25" wide with custom spokes from cognito moto, which allows me to run a 150mm wide rear tire. All you need to run the wider rear wheel is the wider rim, custom spokes, an offset front sprocket, a sprocket spacer for the rear; and the hub locating bracket and brake rod needs modified to fit around the wider wheel. I have a picture of the modified bracket in my build video, around the 7 min mark; but it wouldn't be very hard to make the bracket out of a piece of flat bar.

[@jimboucher7104]

Great video, you did a great job on the bike.

[@likeitornotbut5900]

Sweet upgrade! good video - audio so\so

[@seanlalor2]

Did you have to swap the steering stems? Or was the gsxr stem the correct length? Awesome looking bike.

[@michaels.333]

Thanks, and on a cb550 you don't have to, but on the 750's you will.

[@garywasthere]

For the front end swap, after you swap the bearings the gsxr front end just mates right up, correct?

[@michaels.333]

for a cb550, yes

[@cowboydoc]

VERY informative video dude! So, you don't NEED to run Hayabusa brakes/wheels on it if you stick with the GSXR wheel, right? I could potentially just swap out the forks with wheels/brakes attached and be good?

[@michaels.333]

Correct. The only reason I ran Hayabusa rotors is because you need bigger rotors to run an aftermarket spoked wheel.

[@cowboydoc]

Awesome. Thanks!

[@supersportimpalass]

@@michaels.333 Not true. Cognito Moto hubs are made to use stock GSXR rotors.

[@michaels.333]

@@supersportimpalass Yes, I know. However, I plan on running 18" wheels up front so I need hayabusa rotors. If I was running 17" wheels then I could just stick with the stock gsxr 750 rotors.

[@supersportimpalass]

@@michaels.333 an 18" wheel isn't going to make any difference from a 17". In fact I'm currently running a 19" on my 550 and there is plenty of clearance. Maybe if you were using a super wide wheel but stock width or diameters won't matter. The only reason for using the spacers under the calipers is for the difference in diameter in rotors.

[@nevraXmike]

Hey, I was wondering if I can have your email to ask you some questions? This is what I want to do to my bike. Thanks.

[@michaels.333]

Yeah, its [e-mail]

[@edjackson4389]

Expensive upgrade. I only paid $700 for the bike

[@michaels.333]

yeah, I only paid $250 for mine, but building bikes is expensive.

[@robfox5562]

Thank you