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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Girdraulics: are they safe?
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<blockquote data-quote="Prosper Keating" data-source="post: 10868" data-attributes="member: 1376"><p>I'd agree that a modern hydraulic steering damper, if nothing else, would chase away those nagging doubts that pursue us when blasting down a long hill flat out, with a dip and chicane at the bottom leading into a steep ascent! </p><p></p><p>Sometimes, when riding along at cruising speeds, I shove the bars about a bit to test for any tendency to shimmy, the prelude to a tankslapper. As I said, I've never had a problem but the lore has etched itself into my sub-conscious all the same!</p><p></p><p>Maintenance aside, these machines need to be ridden regularly and the sad reality is that many of them aren't, hence hundreds of internet posts in various Vincent-related web media about all sorts of problems on the road that never seem to trouble me and those of my mates who use our bikes as transport whenever we can. The only unreliable or even dangerous classic bikes I have ever ridden were those lent for features in the magazines for which I worked, or the lashups ridden by many retro-rocker types who certainly render a homage of sorts to their spanner-shy forebears. </p><p></p><p>PK</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prosper Keating, post: 10868, member: 1376"] I'd agree that a modern hydraulic steering damper, if nothing else, would chase away those nagging doubts that pursue us when blasting down a long hill flat out, with a dip and chicane at the bottom leading into a steep ascent! Sometimes, when riding along at cruising speeds, I shove the bars about a bit to test for any tendency to shimmy, the prelude to a tankslapper. As I said, I've never had a problem but the lore has etched itself into my sub-conscious all the same! Maintenance aside, these machines need to be ridden regularly and the sad reality is that many of them aren't, hence hundreds of internet posts in various Vincent-related web media about all sorts of problems on the road that never seem to trouble me and those of my mates who use our bikes as transport whenever we can. The only unreliable or even dangerous classic bikes I have ever ridden were those lent for features in the magazines for which I worked, or the lashups ridden by many retro-rocker types who certainly render a homage of sorts to their spanner-shy forebears. PK [/QUOTE]
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