I've read that plunger frames are brutal. The soft tail like you ( DaddyG) and TwoMany sounds like a better route. I will look into that.
Hi hard_y_rd,
nah, not brutal; plungers add comfort but they eff up the handling.
Well, that's how Britbike plungers worked. Only ever seen an Amen Savior frame in photos. I supposed they saviored your ass but only if you were a hardass?
My own rigid frame BSA handled good on smooth roads (try finding one of those, eh?) but the bumps and dips in ordinary roads threw it off line.
My plunger frame BSA was the same except that while the plungers softened the ride they also twitched the bike sideways.
The bigger the bike, the worse it twitched. Putting my plunger Gold Flash into a curve with the teles pogoing and the plungers twitching was like sailing a dinghy in a choppy sea with the bike's muffler going
spat spat spat as it grounded on the road.
But hey! All you want is to deke your hardtail around PEI's registration rules, eh?
Go whatever way is the easiest.
BTW, I once owned a Montgomery-JAP Special. It had a backyard-built plunger conversion that slid on 5/8" steel bar posts and was suspended with used valve springs, so yeah, anyone could do it.