The Ohlins that came with my bike works, but isn't super-great and is > 10 years old. It's the type that mounts on a standoff that bolts through a hole drilled in the frame and then goes to the left fork with 150mm stroke. It has lost oil through the years and needs to be turned up quite high to function, and then there's definitely a fair amount of the travel that's compressing air without much effect. It has a damper rod that likely needs to be replaced because of chrome pitting, so a rebuild ends up being about the price of brand-new. At about $450, that seems quite dear to me.
Amazon has wildly fake Ohlins on it for $60 where half of the reviews say it leaked even before they mounted it. Then there are the myriad versions that mount on the top of the triple clamp with very little stroke.
One other thing I'm not wild about is the limited stroke of it, even though it's likely the longest possible. The PO mounted aluminum blocks on the headstock to limit max turning and not hyper-extend its stroke. It's not like doing a 7 point turn in the Queen Elizabeth, but the U-turn radius isn't small.
I feel that some dampening helps if I do something ham-fisted on acceleration, and with no dampening I feel it's too twitchy. Says the guy whose other bike is an NSR50R obviously without a damper.
Suggestions?
Amazon has wildly fake Ohlins on it for $60 where half of the reviews say it leaked even before they mounted it. Then there are the myriad versions that mount on the top of the triple clamp with very little stroke.
One other thing I'm not wild about is the limited stroke of it, even though it's likely the longest possible. The PO mounted aluminum blocks on the headstock to limit max turning and not hyper-extend its stroke. It's not like doing a 7 point turn in the Queen Elizabeth, but the U-turn radius isn't small.
I feel that some dampening helps if I do something ham-fisted on acceleration, and with no dampening I feel it's too twitchy. Says the guy whose other bike is an NSR50R obviously without a damper.
Suggestions?
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