Millin Factory Shimmy Damper
Andy Millin worked with the factory to prove out this design, with some input from Velocity motorcycle racer Bill Mulrooney. It's a damper from Scotts Performance mounted on the nose fork.
First you must drill the gear leg and insert a roll pin, or ship your gear leg back to the factory and have them do it. The only thing I don't like is not being able to rotate the gearleg 180 degrees, an issue that apparently was resolved somehow on the retract.
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Rene Dugas
Just got my Damper back and mounted. Looks real cute. Easy taxi now. Thought some might wish to zoom in on the tire to see how violent a shimmy can be. All the cross hatching is result of recent mild shimmy. 35# pressure in tire and 15 # of tension measured with a fish gage just before flight. Solo flight, 3/4 fuel, smooth runway. Slight cross wind crab corrected well I thought. 600 hrs in Velocity.
Those who have not had a bad one beware it is violent. Not like a Cessna.
Rene
