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Fat Muller lives in Horsham (Kevin Magee's town), Victoria. He rides a superb customised Harley-Davidson "SOFTAIL". In September, 1989, a set of "PAN-CRUISE" air shock absorbers designed by J. P. FOURNALES were fitted on Fat's bike. FOURNALES AUSTRALIA wanted him to be their tester on a pair of "prototype" shock absorbers especially designed for "SOFTAILS". It must be emphasised that these units were only at their development stage. In February, 1991 (after nearly a year-and-a-half on his "SOFTAIL", Fat sent us this report:From Fat Muller, Horsham, Vic.16th of February, 1991. Dear Bertrand,Left. Fat and his immaculate Softail custom and (above) the Fournales shockers that smoothed out his Harley's rough ride.To FOURNALES Australia, P.O. Box 1925,Geelong, 3220.Well where can I start this story but at the beginning.After receiving the PAN-CRUISE designed by J. P. FOURNALES shocks which were a piece of piss to fit (they bolted straight onj, I then decided to take a ride where I've had a bloody awful experience before with the standard units at speeds of about 80 MPH (130 KPH) around a sweeping bend. The bike used to get the wobbles up very badly which I always related to the front end because of fork flex and running a 21" front wheel. Wheel bearing preload had just been done before the PAN-CRUISE designed by J. P. FOURNALES air shocks were fitted. After doing the same bend with the shocks fitted, I was bloody rapt to say the least. I found I could do the 80 MPH bend with stuff all, if any, wobbles. It handled bloody great!! I then did a couple of routes around town where I usually cruise and found at 35 MPH (57 KPH) the rough patches of road were really smoothed out.The next ride I went on I took the Missus to check out the PAN-CRUISE air shocks two-up. Anybody that's ridden in the country will know how bloody rough our great roads are and there was about 40 miles or so (65 Kms) of really rough patches on this ride. For this 380 mile ride (615 Kms) it was very comfortable; even the Missus commented on how much better the bike was to ride on. I didn't have tostop at any intervals and give her a rest which I previously would have. The next ride after that had a bit - of everything in it: a few rough back roads, highways and freeways. It was a real test for the shocks han- dling the back roads with comfort as they were rough as guts. The bike was a real pleasure to ride on thefreeways at 80 MPH (130 KPH). It cruised spot on. It is a real credit to the shocks as that trip, all up, co- vered 680 miles (ll01Kms) and if this ride is anything to go by, I'm really hanging out for the new shockers as they are a three times better ride according to the factory. Another special feature about the PAN-CRUISE shocks I've noticed is that they never bottomed out or even looked like it. With the stock units, the frame has hit the road on several occasions on account of the stock units collapsing after only doing approximately 15000 miles (24300 Kms). Very bloody ordinary, I thought!To sum up, the PAN-CRUISE shocks designed by J. P. Fournales; after doing approximately 10 thousand miles- (16200 Kms) in just over 12 months, well what can I say....they are excellent shocks and I'd like to thank Bertrand Cadart from Fournales Australia Pty. Ltd. for giving me the opportunity of testing these prototype shocks designed by Jean-Pierre FOURNALES, they are brilliant.Thanks, FAT.