Fork Emulators

[Bison]

Hello Folks,
I have a pair of fork emulators to fit to my Morini 3 1/2 sport, has anyone done this before?, Paul, did you ever get yours fitted?.
I have no fitting instructions at all as I bought the Yamaha 650 ones, which I believe fit just fine. What I most interested in is the length of the adapter I'm going to have to machine and the size, position and number of extra holes required for oil flow in the damping rod.
Thanks,
Alan.

[EVguru]

Martin Gelder has those same emmulators fitted to his bike. I made new damper rods with rebound check valves that actually work and with 1mm rebound holes we actually ended up with too much rebound damping (now drilled to 2mm). I used three slots in th base of the rod, you just want to make sure that they're not doing any damping, just the emulators.

[mgelder]

I nearly wrote this up to go on the RealClassic site last Friday (wasted a day fiddling with blummin' Harley blummin' carbs) and promise to do so for Friday this week.

Initial results suggest a much more consistent action, although I need to put in a lot more road miles to be conclusive.

[mgelder]

Here 'tis: http://www.realclassic.co.uk/moto-morin ... uning.html

[Bison]

Martin and Paul,
Excellent, just what I was hoping to read about, I'll fill in some gaps if I can when I get round to fitting them.
Thanks,
Alan.

[MarkB]

Interesting that NLM commented on Facebook that they use emulators in their racing 500, but for track days and road riding they'd probably just use thicker fork oil.

[mgelder]

The problem with just using thicker oil is that it makes compression damping stiffer as a side effect of making rebound damping stiffer. So you get a better controlled ride, but one that is also harsher.

Racers will always say that improvements aren't really necessary for road or trackday riding, but that's because they're racers

You could equally argue that it's harder to get ideal suspension for road riding because you don't know where the next bump is coming from; racers have it easy, only needing to set their bikes up for a couple of miles of track at a time