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[kernowti10r]

This is a great steering damper.

[Andy J]

looks nice 

[r1ninja]

Shiney mf

Not felt the need for one yet, nice to feel the bars waggling, but then i'm not a wheelie merchant so havent had to land any high speed mingers :s

[GRNINJA]

looks very nice indeed.

[Lucky10R]

how are they compared to like Ohlins, HyperPro or rotaries like scotts and GPR ?

[10rmish]

nice damper

[kernowti10r]

The damper works really well. It is speed sensitive so I have it set 4 clicks from full on - 18clicks available. Haven't had any headshakes since installing the damper and changing the crap stock tyres (218s) for Diablos.

[GRNINJA]

all steering dampers are speed sensitive you go and check the cheapest crappy damper and try and push the bars from left to right as quick as you can you you will find the faster you turn the bars the more resistants.....

though I have 24 click on mine I only use 4 ha ha ha, mine is meant to have special speed sensitive internals etc etc tis all just hype really aint it.

[davemfox]

That looks very neat....

Dave

[zx10r bob]

hello hope this does`nt come across wrong,cus i don`t want to known as that clever fxxker up north ,,,BUT i have looked all over and car`nt find any info to say that all dampers are speed senitive..................

what i do find is that only some of the more top end dampers are of speed type............it all goes back to people saying of horror stories from old days ie 1980s early 90s on things like 350 LCs that they had a low speed car park tumble because the damper was set hard and at low speed was to much..................

i can have my matris damper set to MAX and on the stand still the bars turn just as lite as if it did`nt have a damper on,but when on the move any cats eyes that get clobbered at over three figures the damper just sorts it out.....................


Sorry to harp on but i just don`t all dampers are the same.......

[GRNINJA]

ok I will find where I read it will post soon

[GRNINJA]

right still searching for it....... but before I post it I want to know what you think speed sensitive refers to..... and then I will tell you my point....

[zx10r bob]

Well its all about how much tension is aplied to the piston,or how much Frichion is put on the piston,its all about the fact that for the damper to work at all it needs alot of tension on the piston,but when your just doing 5mph turning round on a car park you need the bars to be as louse as possible,but this amount of damping would be usless at high mph.............so the new speed senitive dampers give best of both worlds..............

if you find an old duke ask the guy to wind his damper up then have a go at turning the bars while sat on it and you will be lucky if you can go from one lock stop to the other....the tension is pre set to hard but is hard all the time,ware the others can be set to hard but feel to be set soft,and only kick in when a hard or sharpe force is felt on the damper.................

 

[GRNINJA]

well I heard it from somewhere else so I will be the first to be stood corrected if I can find the original post.... from my understanding though new dampers are as follows

set the clicks to the resistants you want..... small clicks the more freely the movement ..... you try and crank the bars from left to right and the resistants is greater than if you slowly move the bars side to side...

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Though I just phoned Henas he works in the trade he explain it to me and it makes sense ...his to busy to post now but will post to explain tomorrow....

but in short mechanical dampers are not truely speed sensesitive ..... I can not explain sorry but he will tomorrow

so bob stand corrected ... but I would love to find that original post where I was told all dampers were speed sensitive in one way or another

[zx10r bob]

no worries mate

 all that counts realy is how good it looks on the pub car park