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Anyone using this?
Öhlins S3 - Selective Steering Stabilizer
Looks very nice,
http://www.ohlins.com/Our-products-new/Motorcycle/MX--Offroad/Steering-dampers/Ohlins-S3---Selective-Steering-Stabilizer/
Öhlins S3 - Selective Steering Stabilizer
Looks very nice,
http://www.ohlins.com/Our-products-new/Motorcycle/MX--Offroad/Steering-dampers/Ohlins-S3---Selective-Steering-Stabilizer/
08 was the first year I think.
The reason I'd never use one is the thought of it locking up.
This one looks better than the honda because it isn't increasing damping the more degrees the bar is turned.
It may work great but that picture of bars locked,full lock after crossing up over a tabletop and landing just kept me up at nite.
anyone?
Hillbilly, has that ever happened to anyone while riding? The locking up part.
The Shop
I used to be hooked up with RTT Stabilizers. It's integrated in the top clamp. And had a remote bar mounted switch so you could choose between 0%, 50%, and 100% dampening of whatever you had the main switch set on. They were trick! I couldn't get down with how all the other stabilizers are just big ol hunks of aluminum waiting to impale me.
This looks like a way less trick version
Ohlins is top notch but it comes with a price. I guess when a set of suspensions worth over 5k the extra 1k is ok...
The S3 stabilizes the ride and thanks to patented technology selects when and if the rider needs assistance. As long as the rider is in charge of the handle bars and with all the force derived from there the Steering Stabilizer provides no damping at all. The rider controls the bike and the front wheel allowing for a natural feel of the bike and free movement of the front end. It is also tuned to not
affect the rider’s movement of the bike while jumping.
However, when an outside force like a rock or another object puts force to the front wheel the system activates instantly. Thanks to a torsion bar on top of the fork bridge the torque occurring from the outside force hitting the front wheel activates the valves in the Selective Steering Stabilizer. The sudden fast movement is filtered away and the rider maintains the control of the bike.
I think this is a step up from the other designs
Just no idea how it works and they don't say much!
I was hoping to see all the bits on top of the clamp as its unclear as to what all that does.
With KTM using the Showa/Honda method and I've seen Stewart using the Scotts design
It time this stuff was more common, better understood imo.
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