Originally she was blessed with a set of 41mm conventional forks. A wise, albeit conservative, choice from our favorite heavy-industry company. While team green engineers definitely know their way around container ships and diesel-electric submarines, their approach to the stock 650’s front end was…conventional. The thing is, when one crafts their own home-cooked springer forks, they should really consult a professional. We didn’t. But we did consult three different fabricators. They worked the lime lady like a rented glove. Through much trial and even more error, we got the geometry fully sorted. We then attached $6000 worth of Nitron piggyback clickers to help atone for our trigonometric sins.

Proper wheel sets are key if you want to put your competitors into the wall, so we ham-fisted two 19" front Harley CVO wheels into her sparrow-like frame. And she liked it. A lot. Continuing our digressions, we covered the contrast-cut seven spokes with our favorite turn-left rubbers. History will note we’d been running Maxxis DTR-1s on ICON builds since before they were un-discontinued, back when you had to source them through Midwest feed & grain stores in trade for a vial of mom’s expired opioids. It was a different time when dirt was still dirty and not sole alive but Gary gave a damn about the beauty of blue groove.