I did that same road in DV in February on OMEs (Old Man Emu) shocks on
my Syncro and no shock problems whatsoever. I went as fast as I could.
There's a sweet spot for sure. Turning up the stereo helps too.

Jeff

On Sep 27, 2009, at 8:33 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:33:11 -0600
> From:    Richard Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Science of Washboarding
>
> Mr BZ wrote:
>> It was all Richard & Bob's fault!
>>
>> As discussed here last January or so, melted the tops of my 3 yo
>> Bilstein touring shocks on the 84 westy trying to follow Richard in
>> his syncro westy w/ all the HD syncro suspension upgrades(?).
>
> That's just not true.  Mr BZ wanted to settle the dust on that
> 26 miles of washboard and he couldn't get his tranny to leak, or his
> enjin, so he was left with dripping shock oil.  I think it
> boiled down to syncro-envy....
>
> Richard