FE/FC ?'s about the Honda steering dampner

I just saw that Jason Andersons factory 450 has the steering damper that comes on the Honda.
I had a respected suspension tuner say they are useless and a waist of $.
These must work if he has one. What are the benefits of this unit?

Yes u saw that too. will they fit my 16 fe501s is my question and again benefits please

I think the benefits of the one on Andersons' bike are the same as a standard steering damper, which for mx is to allow you to set your chassis up more on the cornering end of the spectrum and the damper will help stabilize your twitchy front end on rough stuff at higher speeds. plus the showa unit is light, small, out of sight.

For my riding, I'm in the "just set up your rear sag and steering-head properly" camp, but i do recognize the value of a steering damper for some applications.

I have seen that ride engineering makes a bracket to enable mounting the showa damper on KTM/Husky frames, plus they sell the damper itself...
https://ride-engineering.com/products.php?d=1&p=bm&pn=KT-SHSB0-KT

The damper works no where near as good as a GPR or Scotts.... really totally different units....

I have really enjoyed mine. It was on my KTM but I took it off before the sell and now having it revalved with a Racetech gold valve for Colorado single track. We will see how she does on the Husky with a revalve

Installed!!! Can't wait to test! Racetech goldvalve with a Motovate racing/ Racetech revalve for off road.

I'm in the Aspen area and my mechanic is in Rifle.
Where are you from in Colorado?

Sooooooo happy with this set up! The racetech gold valve with the off road revalve is legit and works so well!
Thank you Motovate racing for making it perfect!

Race Tech revalved the steering dampner ?

No sir RT did not do the revalve. You can send the steering dampener to RT and they will revalve.
My suspension guy is a Racetech service center. So he revalved it with a RT gold valve with RT off road valving.

I am the same guy on Thumpertalk who replied to your post about the HSPD on a Husky.

the honda unit is light, out of the way, and takes the edge off head shake which is perfect for a motocross application. serious off road riding/racing will typically benefit from a more robust damper like Scotts, GPR, etc. One factor to consider is that most bar mounted dampers will raise your bar height 1"+ (non issue with the honda option given its steerer tube mount) thus changing your riding position. This fact led me to GPR's V4d pro kit as it maintains the stock bar height without compromising damping feature function.