friend asked me this question and I couldn't answer it. Ain't it suppsed to help u steer, take in shock and correct under and over steer?

yeah, basically!

Not really, has nothing to do with helping you steer , it actually hinders low speed control. The only thing it actually helps is by taking shock away from the steering input. By doing this a helps reduce rider fatigue, and will help against tank slappers where you can lose control of the bike.

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close... but to be more specific... a steering damper helps the front wheel stay straight and corrects a fun condition known as a tank-slapper. anytime your front wheel is turned in relation to your rear wheel, the natural tendency of your bike is to correct the front wheel and line it up with the rear. if this misalignment is abrupt, for instance... coming down from a wheelie (or after hitting some bumps... or coming out of a tight turn lifting the front wheel), you can get the butthole clenching tank-slapper. a steering damper helps rein in the oscillations of a tank-slapper.

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Yep... that's what I was going for in my explanation.

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ok so it's there to keep the bike straight and u saysomething about tank slapper. Can u explain this more. Also if the f4i is an ideal stunt bike. Then y doesn't it have a damper? Hmm and is safer for me to do wheelies since mne comes with one. Do dampers need some sort of warming up or wait period b4 riding? 2 I've felt it shift to the left when I start to ride home from work.

On a side note: do we need to warm the engine up? I wait till 100 degrees andthen ride out

Tank-slapping is when you lose control of the front wheel and the handle bars slap the gas tank. when that happens it usually means you are going down. They also didn't make the F4i for the purpose of stunting so they wouldn't put one on for that reason. No they don't need to be warmed up and yes you absolutely want to warm up your bike. Just like any other engine the parts will expand as the engine gets hotter. It's most important to warm it up for the pistons and cylinders otherwise your pistons are going to be bouncing back and forth inside the cylinders and can cause damage over time. I usually let it warm up to at least 150-160 before I go anywhere.

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yeah, definately let the bike warm up. thanks for the info guys on the damper, looks like ill be getting one really soon!

Cool. Jaw I know about dampers. Also about warming the engine. I used to wait till 100 but jaw I'll wait till 150. Ok and if the f4i wasn't kent to stunt. Then y do people say it's ideal for it. They say it's well balanced and also does this mean the rr is focused to stunt?

P.S. Thanks for the 411 mr family guy

People love to stunt those because of the balance but that doesn't mean that's what they were built to do. If you are a good stunter then you can probably use any bike to do it, including the RR. But the RR stands for Race Ready meaning they had track performance in mind when they built it but you can also turn that into stunt performance if the rider wants to

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cool beans bro and LOL naw I now what RR stands for. I wouldn't change a thing on it's performance. Maybe tweak the suspention. I need to start a new post on that