Depends what road your road bike is on. VFR500 (yep) at the Manx, no damper, went from the top of Ago's leap to Q Bridge lock to lock doing it's best to kill me. Parked up against a wall went for a cup of tea. Test road a MK1 Fireblade, after that tried to kill me, with more lock to lock antics, I never road anything else without a damper. Maybe I'm like Si and I just attract slappers !!!