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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Modified Steering Stem
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<blockquote data-quote="greg brillus" data-source="post: 75521" data-attributes="member: 597"><p>Tim I'm sorry that my efforts to put photos on here are not good, but I can email some to David, and he will kindly post them on here. I am not trying to promote this set up based on the fact that I spend a lot of time working on these bikes, it has come from a keen interest in trying to improve the suspension full stop. Obviously from the changes I made building the racer, it was easy to do the same though a much less modified version to my road going Rapide. Perhaps the Comet felt so good on account of it's relative light weight verses a twins extra 30 Kg's, I know that Comets generally feel more agile with better brakes and so on, so perhaps this combination coupled with the changes to the geometry with the new stem just gives the bike a totally "Better feel" to the front end. I know that when talking to Neal, he said that by comparison to the Brampton's, he did not feel the Comet's suspension felt good at all, remembering this guy has spent his whole working life around race cars and he understands suspension very well. But I could tell by the time I had ridden the bike to the end of my street, that the change was quite amazing...... All of a sudden the front end was working exactly how it should.......And not a steering damper in sight.........<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greg brillus, post: 75521, member: 597"] Tim I'm sorry that my efforts to put photos on here are not good, but I can email some to David, and he will kindly post them on here. I am not trying to promote this set up based on the fact that I spend a lot of time working on these bikes, it has come from a keen interest in trying to improve the suspension full stop. Obviously from the changes I made building the racer, it was easy to do the same though a much less modified version to my road going Rapide. Perhaps the Comet felt so good on account of it's relative light weight verses a twins extra 30 Kg's, I know that Comets generally feel more agile with better brakes and so on, so perhaps this combination coupled with the changes to the geometry with the new stem just gives the bike a totally "Better feel" to the front end. I know that when talking to Neal, he said that by comparison to the Brampton's, he did not feel the Comet's suspension felt good at all, remembering this guy has spent his whole working life around race cars and he understands suspension very well. But I could tell by the time I had ridden the bike to the end of my street, that the change was quite amazing...... All of a sudden the front end was working exactly how it should.......And not a steering damper in sight.........:). [/QUOTE]
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