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Good morning all-
Apologies for a rather open-ended question, but I am hoping to gather knowledge I haven't been able to from manuals, the vast quantity of old paperwork and magazines I inherited, and the Internet.
Previous (original) owner of my 1965 G15-CS (not yet on the road, but very close) told me a priority would be getting the "top-out issue" solved, and provided me a number of links and resources for the traditional roadholder fixes. I've yet to be inside the fork but planned on doing so once I got it running.
Based on original input, I had been looking at the JS Motorsport kits, but looking at the fork schematics and the manual, the G15-CS fork is noted as having both compression and rebound damping, which it seems the standard Roadholders don't...?
Can anyone with experience help me out?
1) are the G15-CS forks prone to the same damper issues for which the standard Roadholders are noted? If not, any idea what could be causing the problems noted by the original owner?
2) If so, can they be fixed through the same methods? (Relocation of damping ports and/or spacers, it seems?) Is this handled in the same manner as the standard Roadholder? Would any of the commercially-available fixes be appropriate, or will I need to do it all from scratch?
Thanks for an insight and experience you're willing to share.
-Mike
Apologies for a rather open-ended question, but I am hoping to gather knowledge I haven't been able to from manuals, the vast quantity of old paperwork and magazines I inherited, and the Internet.
Previous (original) owner of my 1965 G15-CS (not yet on the road, but very close) told me a priority would be getting the "top-out issue" solved, and provided me a number of links and resources for the traditional roadholder fixes. I've yet to be inside the fork but planned on doing so once I got it running.
Based on original input, I had been looking at the JS Motorsport kits, but looking at the fork schematics and the manual, the G15-CS fork is noted as having both compression and rebound damping, which it seems the standard Roadholders don't...?
Can anyone with experience help me out?
1) are the G15-CS forks prone to the same damper issues for which the standard Roadholders are noted? If not, any idea what could be causing the problems noted by the original owner?
2) If so, can they be fixed through the same methods? (Relocation of damping ports and/or spacers, it seems?) Is this handled in the same manner as the standard Roadholder? Would any of the commercially-available fixes be appropriate, or will I need to do it all from scratch?
Thanks for an insight and experience you're willing to share.
-Mike