The original place the steering damper mounted to worked okay, but it looked akward because it jutted out of the forks at a wierd angle and it didnt feel very progressive at all.
In addition to fixing those problems i wanted to remounted it to give me more room up the front for other parts and also make adjust it easier.
First job was to cut off all the original mounts from the current front bracket and weld on the new one. Its much smaller and takes up a hell of a lot less space. just some 10mm steel ground into shape with an m6 hole tapped into it. here it is ready to be welded on with the TIG.
After all that was welded and painted on to the other end of the steering damper. The plan was to mount it using the fork clamp bolts, which are M5. but i discovered my BMS damper uses m6 bolts.. ugh.
So i had to make a tricky little mounting spacer/shim all in one. It pushes into the damper eyelet and shims it down to an m5. Works great and looks pretty schmick!
Over all it looks much better, it's easier to adjust and it takes up less space + weighs a tad less. So all in all a good mod :)
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