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Bronze Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Poole
Bike: M900ie
Posts: 472
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Well I bought myself a bargain Ohlins damper(£60), feeling pretty chuffed with my self until I put it on the scales 310gms. Why is it when you look to save a bit of weight it's 50 to 100 gms, think about putting something on and its up into the hundreds.
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Too much time on my hands member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Forest Of Dean
Bike: S2r
Posts: 3,202
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I'm mostly with Mr G here, the last steering damper I used was on a 350 scrambler. There is one on the R but that's turned down to 0.
A damper is just usually hiding the cause rather than fixing it, a bit of tyre wear with slight wear in bearings, headrace a tiny bit too loose is all it takes, mismatched fork setup or mistach fron to rear set up, take your pick any will cause it. Typically the damper hides any instability until it gets overwhelmed and then it comes back, hopefully that's at a speed that your unlikely to achieve.
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