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Re: Rear Shock Kit

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Subject: Re: Rear Shock Kit
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:55:35 -0800
When this subject has been batted around before, no one has stepped
forward...

I vaguely remember reading many years ago that lever shocks were
theoretically inherently weaker at rebound control, but that it was not
necessarily apparent in real-word applications.

on 11/14/03 9:30 AM, Larry Colen at lrcar@red4est.com wrote:

> This is interesting. Is there anyone that has installed tubeshocks,
> when they've had good working armstrongs, and noticed significant
> improvement? More than they would from heavier fork oil or competition
> valves in the Armstrongs?
> 
> I can see all sorts of design advantages to armstrongs, though the
> lighter unsprung weight is mostly lost on a heavy tube axle, but
> figured that the internal workings just were not to 21st century
> standards.
> 
> 


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires




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