2016 FZ07 forks with Ohlins NIX22 cartridges

I believe they're setup for around 205lbs. I can check for sure - I know it's close to that. The bike was built by a local shop - I'm friends with and ride with the owners (track days and racing). They took a brand new FZ07 and put on the APMoto Bodywork setup, rearsets, and installed the Ohlins NiX22 cartridges and the Ohlins rear shock. The bike had 1300 miles on it and did/does not have a scratch on it. They actually built two. One they're racing. I bought this one to primarily Endurance race. I rode it a couple days at PittRace and NJ Thunderbolt. I'm going to guess I put a couple hundred miles on it purely at the track - no crashes or anything. Just feeling the bike out. For what I wanted the bike to do, I decided I needed to do some more work, resulting in installing offset triples which require R6 forks, and the height link in the back. I did that work and pulled these a few weeks ago - about 10 days before racing it at VIR.

These forks and cartridges are absolutely perfect, and are effectively brand new.

If somebody is really interested, I also have a perfect loaded front wheel (meaning has rotors), brake calipers, master cylinder, and triples.

OK, no problem. The cartridges each have a spring - for the most part, an Ohlins NIX22 cartridge setup is really just the installation of the cartridge with a spring appropriate for the riders weight and riding style (i.e., skill, speed, etc). The springs get the front end in the right "ballpark" and the compression, rebound and damping do the fine tuning. Frankly, you could probably bolt these forks on as is, and even though the springs might be a little heavy for you, the forks would likely still perform better than stock. Swapping out the springs is pretty easy - but if you have little experience, it's also pretty inexpensive Don't know where you live, but any competent sport bike shop could swap springs in these in about 30 minutes. The advantage here is that this is a complete set of forks so your bike isn't down while you're having this done.

Beyond the geometry of doing things such as offset triple clamps and raising/lowering the forks and using fork extender caps, you can generally describe the variation in front forks in 3 groups. Spring stiffness, oil level, and valving. The valving is "part of" these cartridges, and has not been changed. It's very very uncommon for people to mess with the valving in the NIX22's. On different bikes such as my R1 with Ohlins NIX30s, it's a lot more common. But no need on these little bikes - and particularly IMHO if it's a street bike with little or no track work. Oil level is set when the cartridges are installed and/or serviced. No big deal. That leaves the spring weight - or stiffness.

Hope this helps.

It's extremely common to swap a single spring. We do that all the time racing, as the actual "perfect" (if there is such a thing) spring rate is for example between a 1.0 and a 1.05 in a set of NIX30 forks, or pretty much any other fork to be honest - the only way to get there is to use two different spring rates. Each fork does NOT have to be identical to the other fork. As a matter of fact, many newer forks will have different performance characteristics in each leg from the factory by design. These NIX cartridges have damping adjustments in the left fork leg, and rebound adjustments in the right fork leg. AK20 cartridges have done this for quite a while. The NIX30 cartridges in my 2015 (full race) R1 work the same way. Remember the forks have a number of factors that you're dealing with in terms of performance. Spring rate, damping, rebound, preload, stiction, high and low speed compression......

I didn't get an email notification that you responded or I would have done so before this. I am not on this forum very often. I'll send you my email via PM - please remember however that I'm really asking the price of just the cartridges - before installation - for a complete set of effectively brand new forks with cartridges installed.