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HA HA HA !...........I really enjoy this thread ! All of you guys are really well informed (based on your experiences)  and if I think about your collective experience, it tells me why you all can be so witty in the form of your comments.....humorous wisdom about life's experiences ?.....Please don't stop !   I get a lot of pleasure here....and learn too !

Thank you so much..........Aircooled Bruce

If you were to drive the same stretch of road with a pair of similarly set up Speedsters, one Swing arm and the other IRS, it certainly would not take anything more than 3/10'ths to 4/10'ths curves in the road to convince you that IRS is definitely a better way to go.  IRS gives you a lot of warning, from body swing to tire sidewall flex limit to rear wheel squeal to getting rear heavy to finally letting go - but you feel it coming on so you learn to give it a bit MORE gas and, son-of-a-gun, it grabs and you find yourself steering by getting more or less oversteer with your throttle foot!  That transition takes milliseconds in a swing-arm car, but can last as long as you want it to with IRS as you steer with the throttle.  You have to drive it to believe it.

I appreciate that an IRS Speedster is more...functional than my swing-axle.

I also agree that Mitch's built-in throttle limiter makes IRS vs swing-axle a mute point most of the time

I too have the limiter installed, mine works in sequence and is equally effective.

She sits to my right and when I enter a curve too fast, her right hand reaches for her door pull...and if I don't slow down, she wacks me in the heuvos with her left.

I've learned to drive at a more pedestrian rate of speed after several emergency visits to the urologist.

Last edited by Will Hesch

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