Toby Steering Dampers

I bought a Toby steering damper for my ZX10R which arrived yesterday. Looked
like a nice bit of kit but having just fitted it I'm not so sure. The first
time I turned the handlebars the bracket that clamps round the damper and
fixes it via a ball joint to a bracket on the steering stem, popped off of
the ball joint. I guess it was supposed to be an interference fit in the
bottom of the bracket but in this instance it wasn't. Thank **** I wasn't at
speed anywhere when it decided to do it. How difficult is it to drill and
tap a hole in the side of the bracket to put a grub screw in as a back up
and why don't manufacturers think of these things (or is there a reason for
not doing this that I'm not aware of) ?

This is one item that will be getting returned for a refund pretty sharpish.
They are about £100.00 cheaper than things like Sprint or Ohlins (spell
check suggests Holiness as an alternative to Ohlins ) so I guess you get
what you pay for.

 

Heh.

<Makes Sign of Ohlins Pushrods>

 

Grimley_Feindish wrote

You could have done with paying for a bike with properly designed
steering in the first place.

 

steve auvache says...

You could do with getting a clue.

 

Didn't need to duck for that one to go over my head, wtf are you talking
about?

 

Oh right. I've been over there, maybe it's contagious? Some sort of stealth
grammatical virus with the intent of getting other countries talking like
them so they won't notice when they've been invaded?