My experience with Lansdowne damper cartridges

Hi guys,

Thanks to the help provided by John and to the quality of his dampening system, I've been able to adjust very precisely my front forks and it makes a huge difference in handling and comfort vs my "standard Roadholder" one (using 150 cc per leg of Motul Fork Oil 10W Medium).

From my experience and as John wrote in a post some days ago, it is of utmost importance to have the two legs located at the same height in the top yoke and being exactly of the same length, so that the load on the 2 springs is the same. John details how to reach it in his post.

What is mandatory too is to tighten the different elements in the right order, as for any type of forks.

I did it this way:
1- the stanchion top nuts
2- the central nut of the top yoke
3- the 2 studs of the lower yoke
4- the spindle nut
5- The left hand pinch bolt and the front fender stay being loose to avoid stressing the forks, I primed them as described in John's instructions while braking, so that the sliders sort of "adjust them" to the spindle.
6- When the forks move freely except for the normal resistance of the compression and rebound, tighten the pinch bolt and the fender stay nuts.

Hope you will get the same result that I got!

Laurent

Thanks Laurent,
Your delight is a product of carefull assembly,common sence and skill to get the basic's right.

Thanks for the head clearing details Luaren. How satisfying to need and reach such exactness on a Commando. I get off on Lansdowne fork highs reported here. After this review I'd support an advertising motto such as >
"The Intelligent Pilot Forks".