Sounds perfect.  Just about my style.  Say, you didn't get a coverage of
these high speed runs during the luge events, did you Steve!!!

Ch

Carl Hansen
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At 10:52 PM -0600 7/2/99, Steven X. Schwenk wrote:
>The Bilsteins are mounted on my syncro westy and they
>passed the initial test ride with high marks.  My test
>course was the skateboard louge route from last week's
>CNN Xtreme games...down Ocean beach along the great
>hgighway and back...up past the legion of honor..past
>robin willam's house up along the bluffs overlooking
>the bay and golden gate bridge ...into the rough dirt
>parkinglots on top of the bluffs overlooking the bay
>and then to some really steep hills SF is famous for.
>
>The results:  The shocks are superb on the rougth dirt
>poarkijng lot with huge potholes...the shocks absorb
>the huge holes like nothing...i can take the super
>steep hills at high speed that would bottom the stock
>suspension twice using the stock shocks....upon hitting
>the bottom of the hill....that is.  the bilsteins
>absorb the shock and just bottom out with great
>rebound.  On a street where they cut 3 foot wide
>trenches every 20 feet and then filled the holes with
>concrete but did not yet repave...and thus there's a
>1.5 inch lip  at each trench...i flew over them and the
>shocks responded great.  the suspension corners
>great...progressive give as you make the turn, but
>firm.
>
>the only complaint is that they are a little stiff on
>some types of high spped road...where there's mild
>waves in the road....but generally they're very good on
>the road and excellent on the rough stuff.  Some
>increase in ride height...about 1/2 inch.  They seem
>like they will be perfect off road with a camping load
>and a passenger or two.
>steve