I waited a whole month for this thing. That stupid Volcano delayed it forever and when Bellissimoto finnaly got it, i received it 3 days later, bam! I installed it, and rode around with for about 100 miles this week.
Initial thoughts
The little adjustment button is too small and hurts if you try to adjust it since it gives mucho resistance. Your suppose to start it off at level 1 and work your way up as you break it in and i stopped at about 6 clicks. The install was simple, the hardest part was finding my bar risers since i ditched them a week after i got the bike.
The stock pictures of the steering damper shows it without the little 15mm risers. It looks SWEET this way, but youll be smashing your damper into the tank, so you have to install the spacers...which absolutely sucks cause this thing, in my opinion sticks out like a sore thumb. This may be because i have clip ons and my guages lowered, so the only thing thats higher then my tank is the damper.
How does it work?
I don't know how to say this, im not happy, im make the beast with two backsing ECSTATIC! With this dialed in at 1, you notice the difference. Whenever i ride and im taking a turn where the ground has ripples in it, my bar likes to give a lot of feedback and i always feel like im going to end up in a tank slapper. Whenever i run over a pothole my bars yank a little bit then straighten out. I have for the most part gotten used to it. If you just stay on the throttle the bars will tweak a bit without really causing much fuss. With the damper on, i dont get any of that annoying feedback from pot hole after pothole, and from the various 1/4 mile roads with ripples that make the bars go side to side.
This is my first steering damper so i have nothing to compare it to but Im adding this to the list of performance mods you should do to your bike along with suspension. It really cleans up the BS you get from the roads.
More pics to come later as my bike looks like balls asshole. The triple was spray painted and a huge chunk of paint came of when my bike went into the side of a dirtmound, and my risers arent painted either :p
Also picked up woodcraft clutch cover with double thick sliders, installed a DDM Hid kit with dual headlights
I originally wanted a red one (gold wasnt available when i chekced out with Bellissimoto), but i ended up with anthracite for 1 reason... i didnt want the bling to stick out, so someone looks at my bike and decides hey, let me kick the bike. I think its pretty mellow looking.
I give this thing 10 thumbs up (i stole the other 8 thumbs from the morgue)
