Finally Got A Scotts Damper for the 449

I have held off for years as I never really thought I needed one, and frankly had never ridden with a damper. I had even raced it and only thought I had encountered a minor issue now and again. That is until I got my well sorted WR250 race bike with one attached to a 449 front end. So now I was a believer, but wasn't sure I needed to dump $500+ into my 5 year old orphan DS bike.

The last straw was at this year's Big Bear Dual Sport Ride where the roads on the hard way were strewn with baby head rocks that I knew damn good and well I could have sailed over on the 250. On the 449 they were trying their best (and doing a fine job) of trying to rip the bars out of my hands which caused lots of fatigue. I decided to go with the BRP submount installation just like the one on the 250 before I couldn't get one anymore. It took some time for my order to get done because they didn't have any towers in stock. I highly suggest that if you're in the same boat I was, that you don't wait until they are no longer available.

https://www.brpmoto.com/index.php/h...b-kit-b-08-13-husky-tc-txc-te-all-models.html

I've been too busy to even get it on yet, but I'll throw up a couple of pics when she's done. I have some opportunity to test it out this month between race weekends and setting up our club's Hare and Hound course and looking forward to it!

Well after being strapped down like a damsel on the train tracks for weeks, I was able to carve out a little time to get it mounted. I THOUGHT I had done a complete inventory when I got the kit. After about an hour of careful filing to get the tower mount nice and flush, I went to install the sub mount bar clamp to the triple. Well wouldn't ya know it, no 75mm bolts for the clamp. Trip to Home Depot ended up with the correct bolts not in stock, but 70mm available. Came home and saw that in order for the nut to engage correctly, they indeed need to be 75mm. Screw it, I am going to burn a steak and empty a can or two and regroup tomorrow. Had I been more careful when I got the thing weeks ago, I would have noticed and avoided this...

Me too! I could contact BRP and whine about my bolts and they surely would send them. But to have them sent from Colorado takes too long. Hoping to get it back together this afternoon.

OK, here it is. Stabilizer Porn.

Wish I could tell you how I like it. Rear tube went bad, flat.

Nah, this is the end of the mod road for the 449. Besides Acerbis is one of my sponsors.