Talk:Steering damper

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These are also in some cars. I've just taken one out of a 1970 VW Beetle --flyjedi (talk) 21:21, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Disputed Text
New Text: If the front wheel significantly deviates from the direction of travel when it touches down, it may cause an unwanted wobble. Old Text: If the front wheel is not aligned when it touches down, it may cause an unwanted wobble.

The new text is clearly more specific, where as the old version is ambiguous and does not indicate a point of reference. Without a point of reference the term alignment does not make logical sense. Alignment to the direction of travel is presumed, however, some readers may confuse it with many other possible angles involved in motorcycle maneuvering (Bicycle and motorcycle geometry). Furthermore, perfect alignment to the direction of travel on a microscopic scale is obviously extremely difficult to achieve. Given the number of successful wheelie maneuvers that did not result in a wobble, it stands to reason that a condition for this phenomena is a significant misalignment.

To satisfy the Wikipedia principles of non-original research, other sources have been cited in the current article version.

Mrkowasaki (talk) 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Honda's HESD
Possibly add info about Honda's HESD electronic steering damper

and Magnetorheological steering dampers like F3 MotorSports' Mark 1 steering damper

Bumper12 (talk) 17:57, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Damper pictures
Pics of a longitudinal linear damper and a rotary damper would be welcome. 87.194.223.183 (talk) 19:46, 14 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I have an unmounted rotary damper sitting on my desk- I'll try to post pics of it. Tedder (talk) 19:56, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

More in depth
I will be adding more in depth text on the radial steering dampener as well as the electronic steering dampener. Explaining how they work and adding what application they can be used on. Brock511 (talk) 14:51, 21 September 2022 (UTC)