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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Gaynor" data-source="post: 23349" data-attributes="member: 4034"><p>Yeah, all Vincents are the same.</p><p>I always need the chokes to start, even in what we call summer. In winter it absolutely won't start without them. Sometimes it won't start even with them. (I run 'em lean and mean...) They can go off after 100 yards in summer, half a mile in winter. I run 289's. </p><p>My back brakes are incapable of locking the rear wheel. Which is fine by me, as it happens, since my 2LS front brakes make the front tyre chirrup.</p><p>Steering isn't twitchy, but changing from the (wrong) long eyebolts to (correct) short changed it from understeer - had to be forced to turn in - into neutral / oversteer - turns in easily, a delight to ride, and about 10 mph quicker in the twisties. I conclude that ride height is critical. The top link, rider in place, should be at worst parallel with the deck, slightly up is better, down is bad. I'm about 170 lb.</p><p>I run an hydraulic steering damper, lowest setting. Any higher and it "slow-weaves" at low speed. Disconcerting... </p><p>Better handling springs (sorry...) from softer springs and stiffer (or even just effective) damping. I have Petteford soft springs at the back, C springs at the front, and, critical items, Thornton dampers fore and aft. Their coil-over rear sounds good, but I took a different route to the same place.</p><p></p><p> .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Gaynor, post: 23349, member: 4034"] Yeah, all Vincents are the same. I always need the chokes to start, even in what we call summer. In winter it absolutely won't start without them. Sometimes it won't start even with them. (I run 'em lean and mean...) They can go off after 100 yards in summer, half a mile in winter. I run 289's. My back brakes are incapable of locking the rear wheel. Which is fine by me, as it happens, since my 2LS front brakes make the front tyre chirrup. Steering isn't twitchy, but changing from the (wrong) long eyebolts to (correct) short changed it from understeer - had to be forced to turn in - into neutral / oversteer - turns in easily, a delight to ride, and about 10 mph quicker in the twisties. I conclude that ride height is critical. The top link, rider in place, should be at worst parallel with the deck, slightly up is better, down is bad. I'm about 170 lb. I run an hydraulic steering damper, lowest setting. Any higher and it "slow-weaves" at low speed. Disconcerting... Better handling springs (sorry...) from softer springs and stiffer (or even just effective) damping. I have Petteford soft springs at the back, C springs at the front, and, critical items, Thornton dampers fore and aft. Their coil-over rear sounds good, but I took a different route to the same place. . [/QUOTE]
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