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Steering Damper

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amra500:
heat shrink is a great idea, shrunk or unshrunk?

BDI:
You shrink it of course  :-D After you grease everything just cut a little piece of tube and shrink it over everything. poof sealed up tight.

ktmdude:
I have both clamp on and weld on. I have not had a problem with ether, but I like the weld on better. It seems more permenant. I love my scotts, will put one on all my new bikes in the future. They are great in the rocks, and for high speed bar slap. They use oil, so they need to be maintaned, leek or not. Oil brakes down. I perferr the sub bar mount for two reasons, it rases the bars so it is more comfortable to stand ( I am not a tall rider, still more comfortable than stock). The other thing I like about it is you can still run a bar pad. You have to trim a bit out of the bottom side to fit over the stabilizer, but it does not compermise the "use" of the pad or the control of the stabilizer. After you put the cover on you can't tell it had been tuched. 

bob larry:
two bikes with stabilizers is impressive,.
I would like to try one out someday to see how they work

ktmdude:
Three bikes, but only two dampers. I switch one between the 300 and wrf depending on what flavor i'm feeling like. The 300 sees the most dirt, I have the sub mt(I will always buy sub mt from now on) so it is a few more steps to switch. I rode the wrf the other day, I really missed having the scotts. I don't really notice them on the bikes, but I sure notice when their off the bikes. You can really "choose" your lines, aposed to dealing with what the bike gives you. It seems like I have alot more control with the little gold box.

I leave the one I have on my supermoto mounted up due to anti-theft bolts. I was on a ride with a group of guys, we jumped on the frwy to get to the next bit of twisteys. When we stopped the guy on the "duck" asked me how I was able to kick back with one hand at 85mph with a cross wind on such a lite bike? (at almost 300lbs I don't think it's lite, but compared to a duck I suppose) He looked at my scotts and said "Oh never mind, do you think I could put one on this?"

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