Old skool Kwaker dampers

[Nobby]

How are you fitting these on to the forks people?
Cheers.....

[Norrie Bodge]

Using these -> http://www.mbdevelopments.co.uk/archive/dsc00197.jpg

V-easy to make too!

[Nobby]

Ta,so with these the dampers fit below the fork bracket?, what stops these spinning round tho ??

[Warkton Tornado No.1]

I believe that the subject of Kawasaki steering dampers has been covered many times & for good reason. However, you may be unaware that they ruin the handling of a front damper equipped fork.

With suspension, the spring is there to take any shock load & damping is required mostly for rebound to control oscillation that may otherwise occur, hardly any for 'dive' or compression.

Steering dampers won't provide those requirements as they are consistent in both directions.

[Nobby]

I believe that the subject of Kawasaki steering dampers has been covered many times & for good reason. However, you may be unaware that they ruin the handling of a front damper equipped fork.

With suspension, the spring is there to take any shock load & damping is required mostly for rebound to control oscillation that may otherwise occur, hardly any for 'dive' or compression.

Steering dampers won't provide those requirements as they are consistent in both directions.

Yeah know all of that (after being on lcgb forum for 15 years) and don't care! - I'm building an old skool 80s custom (viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3225) and want it to look right and ride old skool ( hundreds of scooter boys covered thousands and thousands of miles on this set up back in the day), I have bgms on my s1, standard innocenti on my sx200 and nothing on my 150 special but I need kwaker dampers on bla

[LateAgain]

Roadrunner got Kwakers on Nobster. I'll take a pic later.

[Nobby]

^cool!


I mean just bolting them to the bracket is the easiest way but makes them spaced away from the forks to much imo, and it would be nice to use the top rubber mounts to....

[gaz_powell]

you can use a thread bar connector (a long nut !)

you keep the top bush that comes with the damper - screw the extended nut onto it then insert it into the damper bracket on the fork leg, drill through a 6.5mm hole to allow you to bolt through (in the normal way)

hope that makes sense

Gaz

[Nobby]

I got you gaz!, I know exactly the threaded bar connectors your on about...... Hum ok will make something next week I reckon....

[LateAgain]

Make two sets please Nobster... one for me, one for thee, call it payment for the Kwakers.