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GPS steering damper kx500

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Johnniespeed:
We all knew what you meant. Enjoy the damper. What GPS are you thinking about getting ?  I dont have one, but all Michigan trails are able to be loaded into GPS systems.   Some people I ride with have them and seem to like them. I just use photo copies from my trail books. I use clothes pins to clamp them to my center bar.  I guess I am still  "old school"

dsrtrider:
i already have a GPR for my ktm 300 xc-w but when i take my kx500 out i want to quickly remove it from my ktm and attach it so i was looking for the mount only and didn't want to weld the post if i didn't have to.  Sounds like GPR has a mount kit so i will contact them./  I have their mount for my ktm and i like it.

TheGDog:
Hi Guys,

I'm sitting at home now nursing a broken collar-bone due to how my KX 500 seems to like to deflect off of rocks when I'm on a rocky trail.

I don't seem to remember having this issue with other bikes in my past.  Or at least, not to this degree of being soo noticeable. 

This issue of having the front wheel rather violently become deflected off rocks... is this the kinda thing having a GPR steering stabilizer might be able to fix or at least reduce??

Other than this weird behaviour in rocky sections.... I absolutely LOVE this bikes suspension in the desert areas I ride.

ALSO.... since it is sounding like I would probably benefit from a Steering stabilizer... I'd like to NOT go the welding route... but do the clamp-on type mounts work ok?

ANY AND ALL comments would be appreciated, as I DO NOT want to go thru another dang broken collarbone again for the rest of my life (if I can help it).

jazg:
it could be the set up on your forks. i'm not familiar with the k5 suspension but i know a mate of mine was going down every time we hit a rock outcrop because he changed the oil levels and rebound. he was complaining of the front kicking out and the result being him lying on the ground! it was quite amusing i gota say :evil: but since he got the setup right he's nailing it through the trails. another thing is you say you riding desert as well so your terrain sounds like it could be similar to what we riding

TheGDog:
That sounds exactly similar!  Though before now.. I've always just been able to muscle her back into line.

What was "wrong" with his suspension adjustment and what kind of adjustments did he make (or have made) which stopped the front-end from kicking out like that?

Your input is be extremely appreciated and give me something to read on Tuesday when I come back from surgery to have the dang plate put on the collarbone to hold it in place to heal.  :(

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