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I tried some of the Krylon spray paint made specifically for plastic on Lexan. It didn't stick. I complained to Krylon and they sent me a big box of the same stuff that didn't work. Like 20 cans of spray paint. I appreciated the effort but...

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I've had good luck with Krylon fusion paint in the past.  Black plastic trim on cars and modern dirtbike plastics.

On the dirt bike plastics it even held up decent to branches and whatnot in the woods.  It didn't hold up to high rub areas like where boots/legs rubbed on it.

Thank you Oxford, if you referring to Oily Pipes Eric, not sure if he still does bikes, i could'nt locate his shop, ping their page on facebook, no response.

Yes, that is who I was referring to.  I haven't been in contact with him for a few years now.  His "shop" was out of his house last I knew.

Welcome aboard.

Any members know if Eric (202wagon) is still doing work?  He would be within distance of the OP for mechanic work.

That is a sweet bike.

I got the grommets (and probably the shoulder bolts) from McMaster.  Here's the other piece of the puzzle if you are wanting to do this and mount to the stock passenger foot peg location.

Just putting this out there for rubber mounting chamber option.

I used an alloy repo caliper with alloy pistons instead.

That is what's on the bike with the drilled dual rotors I posted on the first page.

350guy, I thought about it last night after I posted, I might be giving you wrong info on what you are wanting to do.

 The TX lowers are the forks to get dual disc on a RD but I think you are going to have the same speedo problem as with flipping factory forks around for the caliper in the back.  You will just gain the caliper on the same side as stock.  Sorry for the confusion.

You need a fork leg from a TX500.

Thank you Oxford. Just the outer or the internal/guts as well?

You should just need the outer leg and swap the RD internals in.  I can't remember if the TX internals (or inner fork leg length) were the same or not. The fork lowers were basically the same except for the caliper lug on the left leg for dual disc.

You need a fork leg from a TX500.

Here is some inspiration if you are still going the OEM route.  100 3/8" holes per rotor and they were also thinned down to around 5mm.

Looks like maybe some Kawi cylinders with a reed valve conversion sitting on the bench.  2 out of 3 heads as well.

Avoid the Noid.

Nice job.  I did a custom mount and similar style damper on my RD.

are the spares available for these kits ? OE rebuild kit is suitable ?

I'm not sure what interchanges or if all the aftermarket calipers are the same.

With that said, I have the aluminum aftermarket calipers on my bike and got aluminum pistons for them from 202Eric.  There was a difference in the pistons between an OEM caliper and the aftermarket ones.  Probably not much size wise but enough to make it a problem.