Based off of this thread, I ordered one of these guys. Well, it’s in the country now and I feel the pressure to come up with a suitable mount for the thing.
I will be the first to admit, this is not pretty, and I do not like it. The final design will only be printed when I am happy with it looking nice, but first and foremost it has to be primarily functional over everything else. So if for some crazy reason I can’t make it functional and pretty at the same time (not likely), I will 100% prioritize functionality and durability first.
Assuming I am going to be using M8 socket screws or something of the like for the sphericals. I plan on using spacers between each side of the sphericals, a clamp mechanism of some sort for the hangar portion, a screw on extension thing for the outside of the wheel that I can bolt the mount onto from the outside, and bolt the damper to the mount with spacers mentioned before.
This is just a really really rough concept of how I kind-of plan on laying it out. I tried all manner of simpler mounting, but it just won’t work with the board in most of the other possible orientations, or at least this seems like the cleanest, and strongest way so that the damper is out of the way of my feet and adjustment knob still easily accessible. Wish me luck… when I have the damper in the next few days i’ll be going out to grab suitable hardware, and draw up the final design with measurements based off the hardware I get and test fitting the physical damper to my actual board rather than a drawing.
I plan on printing it in nylon (I love this stuff) and dying it black to match everything else.
Some other updates to the board, I removed the green printed cable router. It was taking up too much space that I used to dewedge the rear truck with a randal 35 base/wedges down to 25 degrees. Stability is great now, but doing this because I want more stability if possible! I don’t want any twitches if i’m riding with traffic at 45, save for a stray boulder or pothole, you know.
I’ve also done away with the idlers… they were nice, but I shredded 2 belts just braking gently over the course of a few days. I’ve also swapped gearing to 20/36, and plan on swapping back to 20/32 potentially if the damper works for making the thing feel even more crazy stable than it already is so I can get back up to the 48-50mph speed.
Ah! Also swapped rear bushings to dual riptide 93a WFB chubbies, and dual 90a WFB barrels in the front. These are some solid bushings. Still great lean, but just more stability compared to my old venoms.
Ah! *x2, also swapped all my cups for flat washers… trying to reduce rebound as much as possible and this worked wonders for doing just that, and again, further improving stability. I think all my instability at speed is just purely fear from the crash I had a few weeks back… still getting my nerves chilled from that one. Every time i’ve felt out of control since the wreck has been 100% mental. gotta get past that mental block. Gotta get back to that feeling I had before, but with all the additional confidence in the performance and stability improvements this thing has compared to how it was setup before. we will see…