Tricky wrote: Wed Apr 12, 2023 8:22 pm
They are Ohlins forks in my model- I don't know whether Aprilia buy the whole assembly including the top yoke from Ohlins or just the fork legs, but whatever, the top yoke is quite different (and a lot more substantial) looking than the one on the non-Ohlins variant of the Tuono.
Tricky has the super-posh and rather rare Factory version with Ohlins everything. Council spec Tuonos made do with Showa forks and Sachs shock.
To attempt to get another opinion on this I rang Griff Woolley of AP Workshops fame and all round good geezer and asked him a number of questions. He confirmed that the 'Showa' Tuono top yoke is cast, as are the Mille/Falco yokes, but the T yoke has revised webbing for additional strength in key areas. But they do also poke a 10mm hole in it to fix the risers to, and the top deck of the T yoke does look identical to the M/F yoke.
I then told him what I'd done to beef up my Mille yoke and asked him his opinion. Without hesitation he said, 'yeah, that should be alright. If you'd just drilled a hole in it I'd tell you to stop, but what you've done should be fine'.
So there we are - completely unscientific, but a view from a man who gets his hands dirty working on bikes 5 days a week and is very highly regarded in the Aprilia community. That's good enough for me.
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