Wow T20racerman they look amazing! I think this is the route I will look at going down,
The complete forks look good but I wonder whether I could Just fit the front brake, Im not sure whether fitting the forks will create problems with the handling as the front will be higher, as this is on a Cafe racer??
I suppose I could Lift the back up too as I am 6ft2 so may make it more comfortable
Im gonna have a look around for those hubs
Glad you like it - thanks.
The GT750 front hubs sell for about £250-£350 or more as us Classic racers use them (back hubs FAR cheaper). They are pretty heavy for racing and the one fitted to my T20 racer has been considerably lightened - making it look even better! (See 'T20 Racing' page of my website
http://www.t20suzuki.com/ for details). I actually have a spare on my shelf... although I'm not sure I want to sell it until I have decided what to fit on the front of the 2nd T20 racer that I'm building.
As for fitting just the hub, I'm not sure if this is a good route. I ride my BSA hard and wanted good brakes. I tried an A65 type big brake first and although it was good, fork twist and chatter under heavy braking was unbearable. I bought new stanchions and bushes... and it made no difference whatsoever. Eventually I'd had enough and fitted the complete front end you can see, albeit with BSA yokes, gaiters, headlamp etc. It transformed it, BUT as you say, made the front end higher as I had to make the forks even longer to fit the BSA yokes. The GT750 forks I had were pinch bolt fitting in the top yoke, the BSA ones are taper fit! So I had made up some new end caps for the GT forks that replaced the fork top bolt with a tapered one that fitted the BSA top yoke. This added an inch and a half in length but as ground clearance on my bike was poor anyway, this helped!
Classic racer guys build all kinds of specials with mismatched forks, hubs, yokes etc and to actually shorten the GT stanchion (and springs) and then make up a fitting like mine is not impossible if you want the low look of a cafe racer.
On my T20 racer the GT750 forks I was originally going to fit were far too long/heavy (Again see my 'T20 Racing' page for details) and so I had to look for alternatives. I picked up cheap some Kawasaki S1C forks (1970s 250 triple - pre KH models) and modified them to fit very easily. I later fitted some RD250 forks and they worked well too and similarly are much shorter. If you want a low front BSA, look at options like that.
On my original post I say that any early T or GT rear hub would fit OK - they are all dimensionally identical - APART from the bigger and heavy GT750 one, which is what I fitted. Having used many Suzuki hubs, if you do go down the road that I did, do try to get the early GT750 rear hub as it is a far superior beast and looks the part too.
All the best
Adrian