the 929/954 mount is kinda iffy on the Scotts. It relys on a small notch to fit into the upper tripple groove. If the headshake is bad enough, it will strip the upper tripple or break the notch

 

mines like two weeks old ....dumped the fluid and refilled with a stiffer fluid and its still doin the same thing ......3rd gear and down ( no head shake ) but when i pin 4th and get up on BP it head shakes like hell.....

 

rotory stabilizers have slop in them. get a rod style that is nitrogen charged like ohlins or hyperpro. they have zero slop in them which makes for tighter front end....

 

everyone keeps tellin me to go hyperpro.

 

MIGHT BE YOUR FORKS MAN

 

love mine

 

I have a ohlins side mount on my bike and I've had no problems what so ever. I think ohlins makes top mount dampers too

 

isn't ohlins n scotts the same now anyway, could have sworn i seen ohlins engraving on a scotts damper not to long ago.

 

they are the same. it makes me almost think that ohlins or scotts don't make them...some other company makes them then sells them to others. the reason behind this: you order it from ohlins and it says ohlins on it, you order from scotts it says scotts. normally if one company makes it and other sells it, they still say the original name on it.


and that is true eric, it could be your forks. you should bring it over and let me rebuild those forks for you to bring them back to fresh condition and it might help a lot. that stock fork oil is junk in those things.

 

The dirt model Scotts I had said Ohlins in the front. The street one, part # 1001-149, says Scotts inplace of Ohlins.

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I always hear road racers talking about the longer Ohlins side mount damper. I think since it clears a larger area, smaller inputs are dampened better, no slack. But the Scotts and NEW GPR Version 4 (20 clicks) are smaller and out of the way. Better for stunts IMO. The top mount Ohlins is cool for grabbing. Its like a perfect handle but could cause hangups on step through's.