Sports: Re: {Disarmed} Re: [DucatiST] My weekend with a pillion

Could be your roads. Here in Oz we got real "potholes" –Translation- that's a hole in the road roughly the same size (and depth) as a medium saucepan or bigger. You don't want your compression damping locked out if you hit one of these babies or something's gonna break. Hit one last Sunday on my Roadking dawdling along solo at about 50 kph with the sun in my face and she bottomed out...in a straight line Smile

Cheers-Ratso

From: Nick Vale

Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 5:42 PM

To: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: {Disarmed} Re: [DucatiST] My weekend with a pillion

Could be your compression damping is way up? Or your frame, seat and riding gear have been infused with helium?!

Cheers - Nick

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On 11/04/2011 23:52, Robert McNabb wrote:

I've never bottomed mine out with the stock spring. I have even ridden it with pillion and left the setting as it is when I ride solo without bottoming it. Now y'all are confusing me.

Robert McNabb
Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia
ST4 1999 RED

--- On Sun, 4/10/11, Ian Ellison mailto:ian@ianellison.org.uk wrote:

From: Ian Ellison mailto:ian@ianellison.org.uk
Subject: [DucatiST] My weekend with a pillion
To: "St2_Owners" mailto:st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, April 10, 2011, 2:42 PM

Well, I'm back.

I picked Kathy up from work at 4 on Friday. I randomly put 4 extra turns on
the rear preload before setting off 2 up, but within a few yards I went over
a speed bump and there was a loud clang as something bottomed out. I stopped
and wound it up to the max, but didn't touch the damping. This did the job,
with it only bottoming out once afterwards when I dropped into a sunken
manhole cover.

IanE

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