02-16-2018, 09:18 AM
mickey, I don't think any streetbike on standard streetbike wheels with standard streetbike suspension will prevent tooth-jarring jolts when presented with serious potholes, Ohio-based or otherwise. Just not going to happen.
Ride both bikes fast over the same bumpy road, however, and the difference in chassis compliance and composure between the '14 and '17 is immediately apparent. No placebo effect. It just is.
I'm hardly the only one to describe that difference. As you well know, Dirck at MCD devoted an entire article about the improved handling of the '17 vs the '14, which he largely attributed to the new suspension. Ulvetanna would take it quite a bit farther, ascribing the difference to many additional chassis changes for the '17, above and beyond the suspension.
Ride both bikes fast over the same bumpy road, however, and the difference in chassis compliance and composure between the '14 and '17 is immediately apparent. No placebo effect. It just is.
I'm hardly the only one to describe that difference. As you well know, Dirck at MCD devoted an entire article about the improved handling of the '17 vs the '14, which he largely attributed to the new suspension. Ulvetanna would take it quite a bit farther, ascribing the difference to many additional chassis changes for the '17, above and beyond the suspension.