Riders Un The Storm
HEAVY DUTY Magazine|November/December 2018

How a pair of Ikon shocks took some of the hurt out of an NRL Grand Final defeat.

Chris Beattie
Riders Un The Storm

Despite mixed experiences over the years fitting aftermarket motorcycle shock absorbers, I still try to invoke a few calming thoughts and channel a little Dalai Lama to ensure I’m at peace with the world, before I start.

And so I was prepared for the occasional hiccup as I removed the new Ikon 7610SP22 shocks from the box and carefully read the fitting instructions, which mostly just warned against putting them on upside-down. And I have to say the fitting process was very simple and pleasingly straightforward. Almost.

As I reached for a socket to loosen the lower shock mount on my Dyna Low Rider S, I was – appropriately enough in this case – shocked. Instead of a simple hex-head bolt some new age H-D engineer had decided that a star-head (otherwise known as Torx) bolt was needed, obviously for no other reason than to frustrate my attempts to undo it.

But I’m proud to say that I took a deep breath, jumped on the bike and returned from Bunnings $47 poorer with a Torx kit (that I’m prepared to bet will never again see the light of day.)

Short minutes later, the stock H-D units were in the bin and I was ready to give the new Ikons a test run. But where to, I pondered? Then it came to me. Being a Melbourne Storm die-hard, I determined that a run to Olympic Park in Sydney from sunny Frankston in Melbourne for the NRL Grand Final would do the trick.

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