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Old April 1st, 2013, 01:57 PM   #13
old3
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Name: Jim
Location: NJ
Join Date: Nov 2012

Motorcycle(s): Ninja 300, KTM EXC610SMR

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I disagree, the stock damper holes are a poor form of damping and they offered nearly zero on slow speed compression. Now it hits the valve and is correctly damped. I don't think I rode a single mile without bottoming the forks stock, and nearly every time I stopped hard they were blown thru.

If I require more flow to the valves, I can drill any combo of holes I want.

In high speed damping, I believe they were packing, or basically locking up as they couldn't flow enough as they moved so much on every strike. Now they stay up higher and I haven't had them stutter yet, but again, the road temps are only up to 50f at best right now so I'm not slamming the corners where I had this issue quite as hard.

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