Another year for Lansdowne Dampers.
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Ludwig.
Looks fun, hope you rejetted!
My road to the local bike gathering is more of a challange...at 200 ft above sea level ...
much rougher than that smooth mountain pass..Sunken manholes, deep ruts,,and the 4x4's have you seen the roads in the UK :!:
Looks fun, hope you rejetted!
My road to the local bike gathering is more of a challange...at 200 ft above sea level ...
much rougher than that smooth mountain pass..Sunken manholes, deep ruts,,and the 4x4's have you seen the roads in the UK :!:
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Yes sir Ludwig, that's nice example of THE Gravel paths, loose random layers on top of hard tack you can't really dig into like dirt, just slip-slide over. Most dangerous trick it plays is temp ya into braking last few mph with front forks ever so slightly turned, SPLAT!
John, I don't like as rough of paths as you describe, do plenty of em but basically just pick and creep my way across the rougher sections to save bike and flesh.
I have got trapped at night on steep with deep ruts and humps and holes and rocks from grader 'grooming' it but no traffic yet to pack it down. I got 40 yds up before I discovered the real conditions for next 200 yd up an off slope climb. I began to crash this way and that doing everything I could not to fall over but only got more amplified till so skewed nearing edge nothing to loose but NAIL it in shear anger of fate thrown into, and wonder of wonders, rear weather vaned down hill to aim front up hill and towards center of path, in constant about red lined rooster tail that transformed into a slalom skiing type control - floating front over everything. Made it to top thinking relief, only to run into more of the same for 4 miles to home. I went ballistic bezerk - as meant nil hope to make it home intact, so just dared fate aiming at the worse spots only to fly right over by shear power/momentum. That was on SV650. Later Peel sought those conditions out in glee but the way to attack em was learned on 17" fatso tires rigid ringing chassis. Same SV650 I've sown off crossing mild pastures on as so unstable.
Same sense I get on road with moderns, takes insane handling tactics to get much out of em then get too crazy to fully predict their reactions each and every instant. UGH> not so on my beloved Ms Peel. SV had old school damper tubes so installed Race Tech emulators which indeed improved the forks a lot but did not transform like Greg's kit does my Roadholders.
John, I don't like as rough of paths as you describe, do plenty of em but basically just pick and creep my way across the rougher sections to save bike and flesh.
I have got trapped at night on steep with deep ruts and humps and holes and rocks from grader 'grooming' it but no traffic yet to pack it down. I got 40 yds up before I discovered the real conditions for next 200 yd up an off slope climb. I began to crash this way and that doing everything I could not to fall over but only got more amplified till so skewed nearing edge nothing to loose but NAIL it in shear anger of fate thrown into, and wonder of wonders, rear weather vaned down hill to aim front up hill and towards center of path, in constant about red lined rooster tail that transformed into a slalom skiing type control - floating front over everything. Made it to top thinking relief, only to run into more of the same for 4 miles to home. I went ballistic bezerk - as meant nil hope to make it home intact, so just dared fate aiming at the worse spots only to fly right over by shear power/momentum. That was on SV650. Later Peel sought those conditions out in glee but the way to attack em was learned on 17" fatso tires rigid ringing chassis. Same SV650 I've sown off crossing mild pastures on as so unstable.
Same sense I get on road with moderns, takes insane handling tactics to get much out of em then get too crazy to fully predict their reactions each and every instant. UGH> not so on my beloved Ms Peel. SV had old school damper tubes so installed Race Tech emulators which indeed improved the forks a lot but did not transform like Greg's kit does my Roadholders.
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