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<blockquote data-quote="Chris Launders" data-source="post: 116085" data-attributes="member: 2010"><p>Be careful jacking the back end up too much on a road bike. I got my twin from a friend partly because he'd had a tank slapper and woken up in hospital, he'd repaired the bike and fitted a hydraulic steering damper.</p><p> </p><p>When I got it and put it on the road it immediately felt strange and the first bump on a roundabout nearly pitched me off, I'd done just over a mile total !!!</p><p></p><p>I thought it had felt strange when I got on it and it had always looked "hump backed", on checking against a few others I found sidecar springs with the mountings at full stretch lifting the RFM pivot 1.5"and sagging springs in the front dropping that. My friend had never had a Vincent before so was not familiar with how it should have felt.</p><p></p><p>The previous owner to him had been Chris Williams, renowned sidecar racer and I wonder if he'd set it up for track use. Once I'd fitted "pettiford" springs at the correct length and new fork springs it was back to normal, still not happy with it I fitted one of the first JE steering stems, springs and AVO damper on the front and AVO coil over on the back, bliss.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chris Launders, post: 116085, member: 2010"] Be careful jacking the back end up too much on a road bike. I got my twin from a friend partly because he'd had a tank slapper and woken up in hospital, he'd repaired the bike and fitted a hydraulic steering damper. When I got it and put it on the road it immediately felt strange and the first bump on a roundabout nearly pitched me off, I'd done just over a mile total !!! I thought it had felt strange when I got on it and it had always looked "hump backed", on checking against a few others I found sidecar springs with the mountings at full stretch lifting the RFM pivot 1.5"and sagging springs in the front dropping that. My friend had never had a Vincent before so was not familiar with how it should have felt. The previous owner to him had been Chris Williams, renowned sidecar racer and I wonder if he'd set it up for track use. Once I'd fitted "pettiford" springs at the correct length and new fork springs it was back to normal, still not happy with it I fitted one of the first JE steering stems, springs and AVO damper on the front and AVO coil over on the back, bliss. [/QUOTE]
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