To the Machinists out there...

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Thanks Shovelon.  I'm not that confident with welding so I'd prefer to have some kind of adaptor for me.  I like your mod though it looks great.  Did you find the air shock to be better than the original Noleen?

Cheers,
  Stuart.

[shovelon]

Thanks Shovelon.  I'm not that confident with welding so I'd prefer to have some kind of adaptor for me.  I like your mod though it looks great.  Did you find the air shock to be better than the original Noleen?

Cheers,
  Stuart.

Stuart, I did find the airshock to be better, and I will tell you how. The factory noleen shocks are overdamped in my opinion to prevent bobing. I did have one redamped before and it was much better but sag distance was critical.
The Swingers that I like, have the intial platform setting that limits bobing, then it is correctly damped through it's stroke. I can also adjust the ride hieght infinately. And the airshock is less than half the weight and gives a tad more travel too. The difference in comfort on both my Oz and 957 were immediately noticable.

Another note, when I had Simon's sealed bearing conversions done on both my Oz and 957, the travel was noticably less restricted. The Oz drove me nuts until I reset the platform pressure from 50 psi to 70 psi. The Oz felt like something was loose in fact.

On the other hand, many comments have been made that I would get some side to side movement of the strut on my 957, but honestly the much improved travel has cancelled out any feeling of that. The Oz has been observed by some people to have swingarm side to side flex that feels unnerving, but the same has occured in that the improved travel characteristics have absorbed that too.

Terry