How a motorcycle handles over the various surfaces encountered on and off-road can make or break your riding experience. I've been on bikes with smooth, awesome power, but the front suspension was so bad it felt like wrestling an elephant; or, like riding a bucking bronco due to bottoming out or unpredictable handling in corners and over bumps. Not fun.
Damping rod front forks don't give you a lot of fine-tuning capability. Cartridge forks are much better, but if your bike didn't come with them, buying new forks can be seriously expensive. Race Tech's Gold Valve Emulators are an excellent and much more affordable solution. Installation of these Emulators in your damping rod forks will give them the plushness and firmness -- at the right times relative to the terrain -- you've been lacking.
What the Gold Valve Emulator does, in simple terms, is to allow a greater flow of fork oil on harder, square-edged hits, giving a plush feel without bottoming out. On softer hits, less oil is pushed around, and the handling is firmer and without bounce, resulting in better control of the bike.
With a little bit of mechanical knowledge and some common tools, anyone can install these in a set of forks. If you're not comfortable doing so, most bike shops can handle the job. They're available for many cruisers, sport bikes, and off-road motorcycles.
This invention has received rave reviews from every branch of motorcycling. For not a lot of money, you can greatly improve your bike's handling characteristics, and that's the sort of thing that makes riding all the more fun.
Also see the Hot Cams Valve Shim Set.
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