SOHC.co.uk Forums > CB350/400

Steering stop and steering dampers

<< < (2/2)

Lynx:
Drill a hole through the yoke where the lock stop locates, tap a hole into the bottom of the lock stop and bolt on from underneath. I'd use a 5mm bolt with loctite. You should never use a steering damper to act as the lock stop. In fact it would probably still fail the MOT. Good luck.

matthewmosse:
I had two bikes with steering dampers fitted where the damper stopped the steering marginally before the lock stop, marginally. On both it broke the steering damper eventually. I must say I took a while to notice both times, and I couldn't tell the difference handling wise though my dad did.

FourFour:
Thanks for the advice folks.
Looks like I will either have to weld a new stop onto the frame headstock and damage the new paint job or drill into it and put in some steel pins and try and put a block onto these. Though the later could cause problems with the bottom roller bearings.
Gonna have to think long and hard about this. Maybe ned to speak to my paint guy first.

Cheers
Ian

Lynx:
Or buy and fit a replacement stem!

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page