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<blockquote data-quote="timetraveller" data-source="post: 172821" data-attributes="member: 456"><p>Hello. I am the chap who supplies the modified steering heads. I am not sure exactly what you can see or not see as a non member but if you are able to get onto the other forum which is at theVincent .org then at the bottom left of the home page you will see a heading labelled 'Bike Modifications'. There are several articles in there and there is a photograph of the front of two bikes with the new system fitted. One is a Patrick Godet racer and the other a road bike from Australia. You will see that it is hard to see the change.</p><p>Regarding whether the front mudguard stay can hit something on the engine; that is not the problem. I know of one person who hit his front mudguard on the exhaust pipe while going over a kerb with the handlebars turned to the left. The dent in the mudguard was about 5 mm deep. One other person got the imprint of the three socket headed screws which hold the steering damper onto the base of the modified steering head when hitting a severe pothole. Changing to dome headed sockets solves that problem. There might be others but I have supplied about 320 kits so far so it is not a common problem.</p><p>The problem is that not all Vincents are the same. One of the most mystifying problems comes when fitting the AVO damper to the front with the new steering head. On some bikes there is no problem. On my own bike and many others one has to remove metal from below and behind the front part of the upper link. This is not as drastic as it might sound as it was done on the series 'D's. It is the increased diameter of the shroud over the AVO damper compared with the original damper which causes the problem but why some bike have to be modified and some do not I cannot explain.</p><p>In case you think that my response to your questions is an attempt to get you to spend money then that is not the case. This is not a commercial exercise and although I try not to loose money I also do not aim to make a profit. If I charged my time at the national minimum wage here in the UK I would by now be many thousands of pounds/euros out of pocket. The aim it to make the bikes safer, and incidentally. more comfortable. The kit has evolved over the years from originally just supplying the steering head and springs to now supplying in addition an AVO damper, which was developed by Hadronuk, on here, with AVO to provide a modern damper and fitting ball races into the rear of the lower link to replace the original Oilite bushes. That idea came from Greg Brillus in Australia when he was racing a Vin with the original suspension. Thus the ideas of several people have been incorporated and all I have done is to try to make them available to as many people as possible. I should warn you however that several kits have been sold to people after they had had tank slappers, never expecting to ever get into that state.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timetraveller, post: 172821, member: 456"] Hello. I am the chap who supplies the modified steering heads. I am not sure exactly what you can see or not see as a non member but if you are able to get onto the other forum which is at theVincent .org then at the bottom left of the home page you will see a heading labelled 'Bike Modifications'. There are several articles in there and there is a photograph of the front of two bikes with the new system fitted. One is a Patrick Godet racer and the other a road bike from Australia. You will see that it is hard to see the change. Regarding whether the front mudguard stay can hit something on the engine; that is not the problem. I know of one person who hit his front mudguard on the exhaust pipe while going over a kerb with the handlebars turned to the left. The dent in the mudguard was about 5 mm deep. One other person got the imprint of the three socket headed screws which hold the steering damper onto the base of the modified steering head when hitting a severe pothole. Changing to dome headed sockets solves that problem. There might be others but I have supplied about 320 kits so far so it is not a common problem. The problem is that not all Vincents are the same. One of the most mystifying problems comes when fitting the AVO damper to the front with the new steering head. On some bikes there is no problem. On my own bike and many others one has to remove metal from below and behind the front part of the upper link. This is not as drastic as it might sound as it was done on the series 'D's. It is the increased diameter of the shroud over the AVO damper compared with the original damper which causes the problem but why some bike have to be modified and some do not I cannot explain. In case you think that my response to your questions is an attempt to get you to spend money then that is not the case. This is not a commercial exercise and although I try not to loose money I also do not aim to make a profit. If I charged my time at the national minimum wage here in the UK I would by now be many thousands of pounds/euros out of pocket. The aim it to make the bikes safer, and incidentally. more comfortable. The kit has evolved over the years from originally just supplying the steering head and springs to now supplying in addition an AVO damper, which was developed by Hadronuk, on here, with AVO to provide a modern damper and fitting ball races into the rear of the lower link to replace the original Oilite bushes. That idea came from Greg Brillus in Australia when he was racing a Vin with the original suspension. Thus the ideas of several people have been incorporated and all I have done is to try to make them available to as many people as possible. I should warn you however that several kits have been sold to people after they had had tank slappers, never expecting to ever get into that state. [/QUOTE]
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