In a message dated 10/04/00 11:16:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
owner-mgs-digest@autox.team.net writes:
> I've invested several hours in archive browsing time reviewing tube shock
> conversions. I plan to do this at some point in the future as my lever arm
> shocks leak badly.
So what's wrong with rebuilding your Armstrongs, or buying new? Tubes offer
no real improvement over them, especially for the street, they wear out
sooner, and many of the front conversions would delight Rube Goldberg.
And I would discount most of the reports of people that have made the
conversion, if I were you. You are dealing with 2 things there. First, the
guy telling you that the tubes are so great has just spent more than a few
bucks doing the conversion. It just isn't human nature to expect him to say
"Gee, that was sure a waste of money".
Similarly, human nature for some reason precludes people, when they try the
new set up and rave about how much more effective it is, from remembering
that what they are comparing it to wasn't a brand new factory installation,
but a set of totally thrashed, leaking Armstrongs. Hell, you could bolt a
couple of those rear tailgate gas lifts in place and the guy would still be
cliaming (perhaps correctly) that what he had now was better than the pitiful
situation he had before.
Bill Spohn
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