Give me whats left in that damn bottle scooterbob, YAHOO!!! SUCCESS!!!!
Sorry guy's did not mean to tease, really had a bunch to do.(well Just a little
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Brother sing , my apologies, had to strike when the iron was hot. Sing and myself have been trying to hook up since saturday, but the weather was not cooperating. Pretty much rain ever since, with a tooth extraction yersterday.
Had a slight break in the weather today, so I shot home after work,before rush hour traffic could build, Grabbed the slightly disgruntled wife,told her to follow me on the highway, cause I ain't got no tail light. Grabbed the bike,and hit the road.
To her utter concern and anger, I quickly lost her
Like riding on rails I tell ya.
Man, what a difference, Is this what I was missing for the last year? I could only get it up to 75 mph due to congestion
,but believe me, I had plenty of stability to spare. I would say it's probably a mirror image of scooterbobs test on the very similar to mine,equipted bike. 19" front wheel, wide handlebars. Minus the rear fender, and them suns a bitch'in fender stays
Man what a relief, How long we been work'in on this guy's,since May,June?
Before,I could induce an oscillation at between 30-40 mph, and it would take a few times to correct, now I can't induce one. Before at 55-70 mph if I induced one,well forget it,I better get the speed down, or it's tank slapper time. Now,when i tried it at 70mph,slight oscillation, with emidiate correction.Did get the normal wind buffeting due to the seating position and handlebars, but easily managable. The eight washers i added to the shocks, does stiffen the suspension up a bit,but at the cost of comfort. but not that much. I'll take the perfomance.
So,what do i do know? Adjust them fender stays and put it back together the way it was? Run another test to make sure? Or turn it into a factory looking Bobber now? Hummm....... Choices? Maybe I'll put it back together for now, and do it over the winter. I do have that guy patiently waiting for his 80' cb750, that was sitting in someones back yard for 5 years. Next challenge
Gotta love this sh&! Brother sing, i'll give you a call tomarrow. I'll get some pics together for the steering damper thread, showing the Simian stabilizer and the GOrilla Cage
both of which had there advantages, but did not cure this. If these were all combined,Fogetaboutit!!!
Thanks guy's,Dan.