Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:07:36 +0100
- Message No. 4998
From: Arne Lindgren
Subject: RE: Info tripmaster/suspension/brake's
I could buy any old shock for an even lover price.....
Arne (waving a blue an yellow flag)
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> From: Marco Kost[SMTP:makost@nw80.cip.fak14.uni-muenchen.de]
> Sent: den 12 februari 1999 15:13
> To: xrv@atic.org
> Subject: RE: (XRV) Info tripmaster/suspension/brake's
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> Arne Lindgren wrote:
> > I havent had time to investigate more, but this fall I was talking
> to
> > one of the shock experts here in stockholm (He built the Ohlins
> dampers
> > to a race car I parly own). He said that although Ohlins doesnt make
> a
> > rear suspention kit for the latest models, it can still be custom
> built
> > from parts, at a price not much higher than a kit. He is one of the
> > roughly ten Ohlins approved shops in sweden. The skiteaching and
> racecar
> > building period has stopped my work, but spring is nearing so I will
> > check more for prices.
> > I think I read in a mail that the Paris-Dakar bike this year had
> ohlins
> > front dampers or springs or both...
> >
> Actually there is no front suspension available for the Twin from
> Ohlins. Neither fork nor fork springs. The rear shock is available
> for all rd07s till 1999 - but it is very expensive: here in Germany
> ~880 Euro! Thatīs much more than Technoflex or WP.
>
> There are some Twins with different front forks loke WP Extreme or
> Marzocchi Magnum. African Queens uses Marzocchi upside down forks for
> their Rallye-Twin. SW motech uses the WP upside down fork.
>
> There are also different forks available from Paioli, but I do not
> have any information about that. Actually, even the German
> distributor AlphaTechnik didnīt have any info when I met them at the
> IMOT in Munich in January 99.
>
> IMHO, why modify an expensive Ohlins damper - and thus make it even
> more expensive, when you can buy a Technoflex or WP shock for less
> money? Or buy a shock for the same money and a hydraulic height
> adjustment is already included!
>
> Ciao,
>
> Marco
>
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