FF: Forks Hyperpro damper assembly

[Vincent Brake]

some have asked how i did that:
heres a short story picture, turn your PC and it reveals.....

 

[Dave61]

Very neat looking solution Vincent.
Hyperpro make some good stuff.

 

[vibrac]

What is damper model number I cant see anything from the drawing on their list
http://hyperpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Hyperpro-Steeringdampers.pdf

 

[macvette]

I got this damper from EBay. It has a 75 mm stroke. I have prototyped a bracket in 3mm aluminium as shown but because it was made with hand tools, I simplified it to the sketch shown. The real bracket will be made in 10mm billet alumium.
The difference in shape and dimensions between this and Vincent's is because it is to fit the modified steering stem and the body pivot puts the damper further towards the front of the bike. With this set up, there is about 20 mm of travel left lock to lock and this can be equalised by adjusting the damper body in its clamp. I prototyped this on the bike without the forks but with the lower link (With sealed bearings) but I'm pretty confident that it won't foul the spring boxes. The main bracket will be spaced down with a modified 6 mm thick version of timetravellers three hole bracket without the damper rod pivot hole. This is so that there is clearance for the near side eccentric from the 10mm bracket and to provide a flat bearing surface on the underside of the new steering stemThanks to Greg and Vincent for their help.

 

[Vincent Brake]

the Top one for the Norman Walker mod

 

[timetraveller]

Thanks Vincent and the others who have sent in diagrams. I am away from home for another couple of days and hope that when I get back the Hyperpro copy will have arrived. I already have a cardboard mock up something like those illustrated but need the actual damper to get the heights correct. I have a question which I thought I would pose later. When I have these damper links made, and the aluminium lower motion blocks for the new steering heads would people like me to get them black anodized or would you prefer to paint them yourselves later?

 

[Vincent Brake]

Thanks Vincent and the others who have sent in diagrams. I am away from home for another couple of days and hope that when I get back the Hyperpro copy will have arrived. I already have a cardboard mock up something like those illustrated but need the actual damper to get the heights correct. I have a question which I thought I would pose later. When I have these damper links made, and the aluminium lower motion blocks for the new steering heads would people like me to get them black anodized or would you prefer to paint them yourselves later?

What in H$#l is the color of a vinnie Norm?

 

[peter holmes]

What in H$#l is the color of a vinnie Norm?

Percentage wise mostly black!

 

[timetraveller]

Its not just the colour. Would people like them anodised? The colour is a different matter. I have seen both red and blue Vins and even a white or cream coloured one, so each to his own.

 

[peter holmes]

Anodised black ticks all the boxes for me.

 

[macvette]

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I got this damper from EBay. It has a 75 mm stroke. I have prototyped a bracket in 3mm aluminium as shown but because it was made with hand tools, I simplified it to the sketch shown. The real bracket will be made in 10mm billet alumium.
The difference in shape and dimensions between this and Vincent's is because it is to fit the modified steering stem and the body pivot puts the damper further towards the front of the bike. With this set up, there is about 20 mm of travel left lock to lock and this can be equalised by adjusting the damper body in its clamp. I prototyped this on the bike without the forks but with the lower link (With sealed bearings) but I'm pretty confident that it won't foul the spring boxes. The main bracket will be spaced down with a modified 6 mm thick version of timetravellers three hole bracket without the damper rod pivot hole. This is so that there is clearance for the near side eccentric from the 10mm bracket and to provide a flat bearing surface on the underside of the new steering stemThanks to Greg and Vincent for their help.

Latest version of " Chinese damper" install. My bike is a Series D with modified steering stem and bearing mod to the lower link.
When I made the damper bracket in the drawing and mounted the damper on the bike with the above mods, I mounted the damper ahead of the body pivot bracket as shown in the first picture (085400). I wasn't happy with the clearance of the damper rod and the right hand spring box so I mounted the damper behind the pivot point but wasn't happy with the clearance between the damper body and the front cylinder. As a result I sourced a damper body bracket whose pivot point was on the body centre line and fabricated the actuating bracket you see in the second picture (094801). The bracket is made from 10mm thick rolled aluminium and has a 6mm spacer between it and the flat underside face of the modified steering stem. The spacer is relieved to fit over the protruding stem. The mounting for the damper pivot was made from 17 mm Stainless hex bar turned down and threaded 3/8 Bsw to fit into the original damper stop hole which O tapped to match. The other end of the SS was drilled and tapped to match the damper pivot bolt supplied with the centre line body bracket. The third picture shows the final version.
Regards Mac

 

[timetraveller]

Just to express public thanks to Mac here. I ordered a damper from China via EBay well before Xmas and after four weeks it had still not arrived and I got my money back. Then Mac PM'd me to show me what he had done and gave me the EBay numbers of the parts he had used as I was struggling to find the items although I used all the various forms of words I could think of. I bought the damper which was suggested by Mac and also a mounting kit which one has to buy in order to get the one component one needs to mount the damper body directly below the fixing point on the UFM. The kit costs £30 while the damper is only £25 so being a tight a**e and trying to save people £30 I have designed a system to go offset under the hole in the UFM. I made lots of plywood models before I got what I hope is right and I have just had a phone call to tell me that the laser cut parts will be ready this afternoon but the space still needs to have a hollow milled out. If I have it right then you have all saved £30. If I have it wrong then that is my problem. We will see.

 

[greg brillus]

You deserve a medal for all your hard work Norman...........Members are very lucky to have you put in so much effort to help them out. Cheers..............Greg.

 

[timetraveller]

Here, hopefully, are some pics of the Chinese damper fitted to the front end, which is being held vertically in a 'workmate'. The picture show the system at two extreme positions which give about 6 mm (1/4") clearance at each end of the movement. The crash bar was fitted to ensure that there was clearance for that. The third picture show a view from the side to show the clearances.

 

[peter holmes]

Norman, It all looks extremely good to me, thank you for your considerable efforts.
Peter