Thanks Kev, I'll have to check my K0 hubs and see what dampers are in them. I can't stand that Kaplan guy, I've watched some of his video's on YouTube and I think he's a poser, and a shark. He does get some nice bikes in, but occasionally he gets some real dogs and thinks that engines with big end knocks just need a little tuning, and painting over rust is "restoring". I wouldn't buy anything from him. 
The guys that really really bother me is the moto phg guys or whatever, some bike shop out of Pittsburg. There are always only 2-3 people driving up their prices on the #$%* bikes they build to stupid prices....they list the bike they pump the number up on each one. I dont get it. I would never buy a #$%*ing bike from them and i dont really get how they even sell anything.
I don't know if I've seen them mate, but yep, there are a lot of dodgy (sketchy) shops around. Not too long ago here there were little "Custom" shops popping up all over the place building/modifying custom bikes. Most of these turkeys didn't know one end of a spanner from another, and I was called on to fix one CB750 that they had returned to the owner after charging him several thousand dollars for some very poor repairs.
It came to me with a massive oil leak and was running on 3 cylinders. I took a look at the invoice that he'd just paid, and could see that the bulk of the new parts and work that they'd said they'd done, was fiction. To add insult to injury, the bike had been sitting in their shop for a couple of months, and I think he only paid them to get his bike back. I had his bike back to him and running like a swiss watch in under a week as he was heading to Vietnam to work teaching English to the locals. There was nothing wrong with it that any half arsed mechanic couldn't diagnose and fix, but these turkeys didn't have a clue. Luckily for some, most of those shops have long since closed their doors, but there are still a few around, sadly.
