Wow! Scary. Where does one find a damper for an Eldo? Do they bolt straight up or is some fabricating required? Any pics anyone? I got into a near miss with a beemer r65. Added damper and fork brace and it was gone. Ray
Greg Field wrote:
A steering damper has helped mine greatly. Be aware that wobbles on Eldos have killed a few folks, including a factory test rider, so slow down or take off the shield until you get one.
GF
....are living in my Eldorado.
With NO windshield, the bike tracks straight and true, even with crosswinds or in the turbulence behind a big truck, goes around turns nice and smooth.
WITH the windshield (mounted as square as I can measure it, brackets to fork tube), I get an uneasy "weave" down the road sometimes in a wind. When overtaking a big truck it can get positively worrisome, with a bigger "weave" that feels like it could turn into a tank-slapper, so I either get around the truck or back off. And if you carry the wobble into an off-ramp, it gets scarier in the turn until it damps out.
I've checked the wheel alignment and found it as close as I can get it with the old "string method". The bike tracks straight hands-off. I've jacked it up and checked the steering-head bearings - no play at all, nice and free motion from stop to stop. Experimented with tire pressures to no avail. Wheel bearings are smooth and have no play.
This bike, unlike most all other Eldos I've seen lately, has no steering damper on it. Am I correct in assuming that I need one to run comfortably with this big barn-door police windshield on it? I would just run it without the windshield, except that the sprung solo seat and pull-back police bars don't lend themselves to 65-mph cruising with the wind pulling at you.
Any advice as to whether your experience says that a steering damper might solve this problem? And (if so) how it might mount to the bike?
Thanks in advance.
Lannis
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