EXTRA TRAVEL IS NO PROBLEM :!: ..INCREASING THE BODY AND ROD LENGTH ANOTHER 1.1/2 INCH'S WILL GIVE BUSH-BUSH- SLIDER BOTTOM.. ,FULL TRAVEL..BUT I [AND THATS ONLY ME] CONSIDER THE COMMADO FORKS HAVE TO MUCH TRAVEL? 75-85MM IS ABOUT THE NORMAL DISTANCE TODAY...AGREE? LANSDOWNE ENG
Full 6" travel option was the last straw for me John. Now restless to try the full kit someday. Stock spring coil binds before fork bottom bush closes off oil holes or bottoms on damper rim. Stock damper valve on too short a damper rod collides with damper cap before top bush can cover stanchion oil holes. With a ~2" extra spring spacer - no coil bind just hydraulic indefinite soft silent bottoming. With longer rod - silent indefinite soft silent top out stop.
Fluid holes must be moved and reduced and staggered to get the progressive indefinite end points. I top and bottom out very hard at times, hitting pasutre goffer holes at 60, leaping up 4 ft almost vertical slope with air borne landing in 6" deep unseen rut at top to grab front tire slamming down on nose but silent stop to rebound to full soft top out to carry on wondering if I'd bent the whole chassis
and blessing my starts face shield kept teeth off yoke impact, nope full Commando took it in stride. Rest of ya may not notice couple inches extra travel as a benefit but I sure do.
Hardest test for your fork kit to pass with me is to tolerate dampening skipping out in full leaned counter steer till transition into straight steer, twists forks up intermittently by tire chipping loss of grip as power lifts out of traction, then instant torsion release into next instant of increased traction/torsion of front tire aimed in direction of travel, Straight steering front is lifting bike hard into high side while slightly grinding rear forces bike down hard to low side. All this on tire edges over lumpy rippled cracked old fashion bluff face wagon trail 'highway'. Works a treat in rough raw woods hillsides and ravines too. When I say fork twist, not really as in stock set up, with RGM brace stiffening and raising the oscillation frequency, its more an energy storing of slight twist, not flopping into rubbery connection that delays tire or pilot forces into fork effect.
I look up to your kit equipped Manx+pilot as real cornering competition to try to match or exceed with Peel as sure ain't got no more respect for them moderns once leaned to 45* or more. In the really tight turns hp don't matter as much as handling ala the 125's passing the elite Norton racers in nice turns they tell me.
By all rights those whimpy little bikes should not be able to put down more power and thrust through turns than big brute bike, but it happens alot. Why?
I want my Peel to out turn even 125's if that's possible, best I can tell so far it is.
I await reports of Commando type racers over taking the little guys in hard to take turns.