Superbrace

[Pauley]

Installed my new superbrace last week. Have riden about 150 miles since.

May be my imagination, but I think I notice a subtle but perceptable improvement in the feel of the front end - a little more solid, a little more responsive to countersteer. I don't ride close to the edge at all so I'll probably never know.

Main reason I installed the superbrace was to potenitally cure (or reduce) my mysterious front tread feathering problem. The OE Dunlop on the front has feathered pretty badly with only about 6k miles on it. I'm going to replace with a new front Bridgestone BT54 in a few weeks - hopefully the Bridgestone will fare better with the superbrace on there. We'll see. I'll report back when I have a couple of thousand miles on the new front tire...

I now have about 800 miles on my bike since installing the Superbrace. The "high edges" on the feathered tread have all just about leveled off so I think the Superbrace solved the issue by making the front end stiff enough to eliminate the issue! The Dunlop OE front tire is just about to the wear limits so I am going to put my new Bridgestone BT-54 on next weekend.