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It shakes, rattles and stirred? Plain living, motorcycles. But many a tad too much. Our tips and tricks for optimizing fork and shock absorber.


The front fork, so it sounded just over a quarter century in the workshops of Rimini Edelschmiede Bimota is a bad design. It was time to find a new, really clever solution. Thus, the idiosyncratic Tesi was born with their own still more willing steering wheel hub. But the revolutionary aha came. Technically, the design was seen as vulnerable, one complained of excessive manufacturing tolerances, high-speed swing and rocking when accelerating.

Bimota was not alone. Projects, to make an end of the fork, there were many most famous flop is the wheel steering the Yamaha GTS 1000 A. Significantly, however, the successful BMW approaches. In 1993, before the Munich brand new Boxer generation Telelever front. To date, this form of front suspension is typical for most types of boxers.

Bavaria’s No to the fork was again strong with the latest generation of K-stressed by 2004, the circumstances linked with the baptized in the name Duolever front end to the old principle of the Hossack fork in 1979. To date, was able to hold the fork so is technically arrived at a very high level. But what it always hitch, the vote of the entire chassis to your needs: Is the bias, which causes the change of train and compression damping, what causes it to be a restless, too tight or too soft suspension? On the following pages we take so very specifically the front and rear suspension before, indicate which settings are made there, what care measures are reasonable and are also presented matching accessories.