Topic: a steering damper i can fab in the garage instead of a shock type i have to buy

[bucky katt]

has anyone here ever set up a friction type steering damper, like the one on my suzuki titan onto a cb750? i would like to do a regular, shock type damper mounted to the steering head on one end and the other end attatched to the frame but i really cant spend anymore money on this bike and i know for sure i dont have the materials to fab up a shock type damper but maybe i do for the friction type with the knob coming up through the top yoke nut. 

[lordmoonpie]

I didn't use it on my 750 but nearly did - I had a ceriani triumph damper that I was going to modify with parts from Phil Denton (www.phildentonengineering.co.uk) so as to get the RC damper knob. They are very simple things with just a threaded rod through the headstock and a frame mounted base with friction washers in between to provide the damping. I'm sure you'd be able to fab one in your garage Bucky with a bit of thought. Take a look at the pictures of the parts on either Phil's site or on www.discovolantemoto.com and you will see all the constituent parts needed to make it work.

[bucky katt]

thanks very much  for the info, i'll post how it turns out later this afternoon possibly.

[Whaleman]

My old Yamaha YM-1 had a damper like that with a big black knob and friction discs.

[HondaMan]

So did many of Honda's bikes: the CB/CL160, 175, 250 (CB/CL72), 305 (CB/CL77), CB/CL 350 until 1971. It just occurred to me that the parts on the 1970  CB350 out back might even fit! Gotta go look...

See what you started, now, Bucky?   

[754]

You have to add a it to your stem below the weld, either forked or d'd, to grip the damper parts that move wiith the tree, then I think you need to bracket the other pcs to the frame..