My front Positrac arrived from Sputhe today. As I suggested in my earlier posts regarding the True Track, the Sputhe is a much more elegantly designed and engineered stabilizer than the the True Track. The quality of the heim joint and fasteners appears to be better, too.

It comes in a nifty blister pack:

 

More elegant, a bent metal bracket? I don't want to burst your bubble, it may be more compact, but it looks weaker and the heim joints are definitely not better than those on the TT. Sorry, but it looks cheap too me. If it works, that is what counts though.
CB

 

Are you planning on installing just the front mount or do you already have one on the rear ?

inthered

 

Have you held both in your hands (as I have) and compared them?

 

Just the front. I believe 90% of the effectiveness of a True Track or Positrac can be had by installing either the front or the rear stabilizer. But as far as I know, True Track won't sell just the front or rear. Sputhe will.

 

If it was me I would have bought the rear one first since thats where most of the swingarm flex originates. Do you buy the front one since it is the easiest to install ?

 

The rear stabilizer is not going to affect swing arm flex. I think this is a common misconception. The only thing a front and rear stabilizer can do is prevent the engine/transmission/swingarm/rear wheel from moving on a horizontal plane which affects the alignment of the rear wheel with the front wheel. Either a front stabilizer or a rear stabilizer can do this, but I happen to think the front stabilizer is the more effective of the two if you're only going to use one. Buell must have thought so, too, since when he designed the FXR frame he specified a top and front stabilizer, but not one in the rear.

 

I have seen one on a bike and I am looking at your nicely blister packed unit and all I see is a stamped metal bracket? The TT front bracket is a very solid piece of machined aluminum, no flexing there. The heim joints are the cheaper ones threaded at the joint, which break at the exposed thread, compared to the TT ones that have the adjuster threaded into a solid joint. There is probably not enough stress to break the sputhe joint, but there is no comparison of the two joints.
I think the front bracket will flex without the rear support also installed, I don't think this would be the case for TT front support. There is considerably more stress at the rear in my opinion and without the rear support you will never get the full benefit of the system, especially the Sputhe.
It is your choice and I don't really want to slam anything, I hope it works out for you.
CB

 

Looks nice, can you take pics of the install?

Mike

 

I'll be interested to see what happens with this.