Ohlins is Swedish for "Oh Yeeeaaaaah"

This one was a long time coming, and in truth, most of the time, I thought it was just a personal pipe-dream. Impossible may be too implausible of a word for it, but knowing how unwilling I am to drop some serious coin on certain things, one day fitting the R1 with a set of Ohlins forks alone just didn't seem like an m.o. given their cost, even if used.

So to be able to fit these glistening legs AND a pair of billet monobloc radial calipers, well, this is the good side of pouring when it rains. :)


Ohlins forks from the donor bike, mine in the background,
transplant in progress. :)
In short, I found a same-gen Yamaha R1 being sold locally, already fitted with the bad boys along with other too-good goodies. It wasn't an option of buying just the parts that I wanted, but having a friend like Rob, who's in the biz of buying and selling bikes, he did me the favor of a lifetime by buying the whole bike to sell, but not before he swapped the parts that I wanted out of it and into my bike!


PVM 4-piston Radial Billet Monobloc Calipers - in layman terms,
if Michelangelo's hand was a CNC-machine,
this would be his painting.
I swear, at this point, I'd be happy to retire the bike and just keep it in a glass case from this day forward. :)