Hi Vic, thank you for your posting #48 with the videos of various bikes having the dampers fitted to them. I looked at all four of them and was interested just how careful people had to be with extra 'O' rings or rotating fork legs to ensure clearance. I think those of us who have done this alone have done quite well to come up with systems which work and clear other bits of the bike.
When I was researching dampers for my design I saw these pictures but all were still pictures, not videos, so I was unaware that the damper bodies hardly rotate. I did try to design something similar for the Vincent but could not find anything useful to act as an anchor. I thought that the ability to adjust while riding might be useful but gave up in the end and users seem to find the system adequate with the damper below the steering head with no possibility of adjusting while on the move. At the moment I am not minded to change my design, remember specifically for the JE steering head. However, I can imagine a system similar to yours which does not use the original friction damper system as one end of the operating system and will think about that at some stage. Right now I still have over ten of my systems on the shelf to supply to JE steering head users and will continue to supply those to people who are interested.
When I was researching dampers for my design I saw these pictures but all were still pictures, not videos, so I was unaware that the damper bodies hardly rotate. I did try to design something similar for the Vincent but could not find anything useful to act as an anchor. I thought that the ability to adjust while riding might be useful but gave up in the end and users seem to find the system adequate with the damper below the steering head with no possibility of adjusting while on the move. At the moment I am not minded to change my design, remember specifically for the JE steering head. However, I can imagine a system similar to yours which does not use the original friction damper system as one end of the operating system and will think about that at some stage. Right now I still have over ten of my systems on the shelf to supply to JE steering head users and will continue to supply those to people who are interested.