the only problem gunny - is that is just a small problem for the big pic...
RIDEPATE is right - to race these things COMPETITIVELY you have to make the front end beefier... but that means going out of the Lites class and into a whole another arena - and Im with pate here too, if you are going to go to that much trouble - might wanna think another option.
I for one have decided to stay LITE, race when I can, but not set the entire machine up around it....