Fitting a steering damper

Nickj · 19-04-2024, 05:32 PM

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.

19-04-2024, 05:32 PM	#9
Nickj Too much time on my hands member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Forest Of Dean Bike: S2r Posts: 3,195	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. __________________ "The final measure of any rider's skill is the inverse ratio of his preferred Traveling Speed to the number of bad scars on his body." Song of the sausage creature