Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater
In case you've been waiting for the scanner stream to come back, your day has come. It's back, and appears to be fully functional. Still one user at a time, unfortunately, but it's back to where it was.
Hooray!
Posted at 18:45 permanent link category: /misc
I got an email from Dave Quinn today, intrepid importer of Hagon shocks. He said that my spring rate on my rear shock is 90 kg/cm (or about 500 lbs/in), which is nice to know.
He also said that the damping adjuster should have a range of 7.5 full turns, yet mine has 4.5 (or 5 if I turn the adjuster really hard). I've emailed him back asking whether he thinks it's safe in that condition (ie, can I ride it to Montana and back). I'm concerned that if it should have 7.5 and only has 5, something's got to be blocking it, and that something could come loose and make riding the bike either very uncomfortable, or actually dangerous.
If he thinks it's safe as-is, I'll make the trip, then send it back to have this error corrected. If not, I guess I'll swap the stock shock back in and suffer along with a sagging rear-end (of the bike, get your mind out of the.. gutter, I guess?). It'll be pretty sag-tastic once I get my ~50 lbs of gear loaded on the back. But then I can get the shock sent of to jolly ol' England and they can get it back to where it should be.
Dave's website suggesst that these shocks have a 2 year warranty, and that Dave Quinn "extends" that warranty to me, the consumer. When I've gone anywhere near this territory on the phone with him, Dave has shied away like I was asking for a pound of flesh, so I'm not sure what he considers "extending the warranty" to include. I suspect it just means that if I send the shock back at my expense, Hagon will fix it and send it back again, still at my expense for shipping.
Update: I just talked to Dave, and he says that his rating of 7.5 turns is actually based on another type of shock, and when he grabbed a shock similar to mine off the shelf, he only got 5.5 turns out of its adjuster. Sounds like my shock just gets 5 turns of adjustment. Whew! I'd hate to have to ride to Montana and back on the stock spring.
Posted at 14:24 permanent link category: /motorcycle
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater