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Mountain Race Shop MB1 Suspension Specialist

Locality: Cooma, New South Wales

Phone: +61 420 947 505

Address: 2644 Shannons Flat Rd 2630 Cooma, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.mountainraceshop.com.au

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25.01.2022 Older YZ 250 Kyb shock in for some love, we are booked out this week, there is still one spot available 8:30 sat morning for re valve and next week is filling up

22.01.2022 2021 will bring a new year and a new era for motocross in Australia, as today Motorcycling Australia (MA) proudly launches ProMX. You can read the full announcement here https://www.ma.org.au/ma-launches-promx-the-new-era-of-the/ #ProMX #Motocross

22.01.2022 Sorry we are booked out for work this Saturday 17th All next week 19th to 23rd And next Saturday 24th ... Next available booking is Monday 26th Drop off is still available before 26th and counter sales are still open

22.01.2022 Great prices on K Tech RDS cartridges for the GSXR1000 Call for prices including fitting ready to ride away not hidden extras pricing

20.01.2022 This is where it all started. I got some please explain after yesterday’s post regarding the 2021 crf450. After all, 20 years on it can’t be that bad. Well a hit of history ... Since 2002, Ive have been changing the triple clamp offset on the crf450. It’s always suffered shocking trail numbers, sometimes you can get it by lowering the shock some but mostly it’s by triple clamp offset. Back in 2002, 2003, 2004, it needed 20mm offset triple clamps instead of the stock 24mm clamps. In 2005, Honda changed the offset 2mm at the front axle dropout and steepened the head angle, i switched to 22mm triple clamps to get it right For 2006 and 2007, Honda stood pat with their offset, but lowered the engine by 5mm to help forward bite?this improvement in handling lessened the urge to change the offset from stock but I still did, the Crf still wasn’t great in the trail number department. 2008 Honda has elected to mount 22mm offset triple clamps on the CRF450 and a steering damper, 24mm clamps and suddenly the Crf didn’t need the steering damper From 2009 to 2016 we’re just shocking, nothing but a shallow grave would suffice Honda tried to rewrite the laws of geometry and lost it was only stubbornness that made the bad times last 8 years and I told anyone that would listen to buy a yzf. 2017 with stock 22mm offset clamps it came in at a nervous 115mm of trail this is the bare minimum and as such lowering the rear shock got it back to nice stability and turning. So 2021 sees us back at 2017 stock geometry, 114mm of trail stock says it’s going to shake it’s head the faster you go. It’s an easy fix, go and buy a yzf, if you have your heart set on blistered hands and arm pump then lowering the shock and changing the shim stack along with springs front and rear will go some way to mitigating the problem but just like the WP forks even when you put an Ohlins cartridge in it still has problems and so it is with the Crf, the shock is the weak point and it needs to go

20.01.2022 I made the decision earlier in the year that we would change out any nickel plated nuts we found installed by other shops with these plain steel locknuts from K Tech at no charge on a as we came across them basis. Chris Taylor brought it to my attention, the suspension fluids react with the nickel causing a reaction with the fluid affecting damping. So no more nickel nuts then. ... And if some shop wants to use that mid valve setting knock your socks off, it’s one I replaced yesterday from a competitor.

18.01.2022 Rmz450 So the green line has been re valved by someone else interstate and is behaving exactly how the customer described it. With compression clickers c-13 and rebound r-16 nothing the customer could do by screwing them in was going to clean this up. ... The blue line is also c-13 r-16 but with a new shim stack and fresh fluids. Ironically if I had have run the dyno in Peak velocity plot (PvP) rather than Constant velocity Plot (CVP) the PvP trace would have been smoothed out and not looked as bad or given a true picture of what’s going on.

18.01.2022 Partner it with zip and kids will be happy at Christmas

17.01.2022 Ring shims create a whole new world of stacking shims in sort of a building a pie factory so you can have a pie. It enables preloading, some manufacturers like Ohlins love them, personally I’m not a fan but I have used them on supermoto bikes and road race bikes. This wp PDS shock, well the ring shim is no longer. ... And the damping is nice and linear thankyou

14.01.2022 K Tech equipment is wining championships all around the globe for the simple reason, that it works The attention to detail, the fitment, and the quality of parts all add up to suspension that is working for you not against. Road or track there is a suspension solution available ... Call craig 0420947505

13.01.2022 The big BMW telelever fork. Nice design actually, pity it’s let down by the cheep as chips shock. There are some good alternatives that offer adjustment, performance and are serviceable

13.01.2022 2021 Crf450 If you buy the Crf don’t take it home, bring it straight into the workshop This bike is near unrideable in stock suspension trim. ... The two main problems are chassis geometry and the rear shock. The problems go way back near 20 years, we have changed triple clamps on most years Crf to achieve trail and it costs money to fix but once fixed that motor. Wow

12.01.2022 Great Friday at the office

12.01.2022 Reinventing the wheel, well it’s what manufactures try to achieve from time to time with suspension and chassis geometry. The crf450 that I wrote about is a classic example. Motorcycles are governed by laws, not the don’t go fast type but simple geometry and engineering ones. Fluid mechanics, gas laws and trigonometry are the big ones. There are people that have tried over the years to disprove some aspects but last I checked a right angled triangle was the same now as when... I left school a billion years ago. Now this is important because the same things that worked way back, still, (by laws), work today. The spring rate in your forks, baring a change in bike or rider weight or a big change in steering angle, will still need to be the same rate they once were. Shock springs too, although the shock spring rate is also governed by the linkage ratio and swing arm length as well as a few other geometry points, but baring a change will be the same just as before. Damping is the same (ish) but baring a change in skill or riding (eg, going from mx to enduro) the damping number will be the same. Now here’s the good bit. Manufacturers make changes, we know that, they list them (mostly) in the sales promo. Suspension engineers look at those changes in relation to how the bike stacks up against the laws and make it work undoing the manufactures work. We don’t reinvent the wheel, we know that road race bikes need 92-98 mm of trail and that most riders will like 95mm. We know that senior dirt bikes need 115-130mm of trail and that most riders will like 120mm. There will be those that disagree, knock yourself out, set your bike however you like it, it’s not my concern. I’m happy for anyone to go faster and prove the laws wrong. So why do manufacturers make changes? Job security. It gives engineers something to do, sales something to promote and shops something to sell. It’s that simple. Make no changes sales drop, just look at the Yz250, bugger all changes of note since 2006, still wins races but the yzf250 which is updated regularly outsells it. Here’s another myth I’m happy to destroy and discuss, steering dampers are a crutch designed to mask / bandaid fix poor bike geometry setup, the only reason they work for some riders is because the setup is incorrect to start with. All the best-craig

09.01.2022 Gotta love jorden https://www.instagram.com/p/CIB5URPhyMp/?igshid=i2se5gw6byyv

09.01.2022 Congratulations James fantastic job well done

07.01.2022 I get it, we are more than 10 min drive away and we all have lives to live. The benefits of even a geometry setup with sag and fork heights can be immediately felt and better yet for mx or off road, immediately tested with tracks just outside the door, all at a great price and most spring sizes and rates in stock if we need them. Call craig on 0420947505 to book

07.01.2022 Still running air in your Ktm, husky Crf or rmz Everyone has an advantage over you

06.01.2022 I see a lot of this and just keep scrolling more because no one wants to listen, but let me tell you about a man named Jed nearly kept his family fed. Actually it was Eldridge and he ran ADB. ADB like other magazines such as track and trail used a former race track across the road from my parents house in news rd werombi on the outskirts of Sydney. ... Any ways after some considerable time testing they realised no one had put oil in the fuel, which had then been used to continuously top up the tank. Now the tank hadn’t been let run down and Bit of, probably bad, math had that kawi running around 260:1 by the end of the day. Still singing sweet.

05.01.2022 to follow on with the crf trail (any bike really) here is the easy you can do it your self video and link to down load the race tech excel file dead easy just be safe when setting up your bike to measure https://www.mountainraceshop.com.au/tail-calculator.html

05.01.2022 Have one set and one set only Ohlins cartridges to suit Ktm / husky 450sxf to replace the AER cartridge Complete with fork springs and installed $2500 incl gst ... Get in quick these never sit around 0420947505 craig

04.01.2022 Bimota is the house of fantastic looking bikes that are definitely out of the box. This particular one produced by Nipponica WhiteHouse. In 1990 Bimota produced the Tesi 1 D but evidently the futuristic project of the small house in Rimini couldn't be enough for exclusivity to everyone. ... So about a year later the small Japanese WhiteHouse specialised in small productions based on existing technical bases, decides to get hands on the newborn Tesi project and does it by radically changing the design of the superstructure, thus creating the White Folgore Italian name chosen in honor of the Romagnola house. Discuss freely

04.01.2022 That’s about a linear as I can get the old PDS shocks

04.01.2022 Plastics win again On the older exc the plastics rub on the shock during compression and a few hundred thousand runs later, actually it doesn’t take that long to see it start so if yours is rubbing trim up the plastics with a stanly knife

04.01.2022 Black Friday Sale now on We only do a sale once a year and today is the day, 10% off all stock items until 5pm No rain checks, no tomorrow’s, no refunds ... Booked, ordered and paid for today only 0420947505

03.01.2022 The feeling you get from the older Ktm pds shocks comes from the shaft interacting with the needle, a telescopic needle goes some way to resolving the problem combined with a revalve for a more linear damping

01.01.2022 10 pm Monday night our time. Have your credit cart at the ready.