My Ohlins experience.
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Well I recieved and installed my #2-#2(A) Ohlins, they are 12 1/8"/309.5mm and have 3 34"/83mm stroke /3= 1.08"/27.666mm = riders sag, making the shock 309.5mm (-) 27.66mm = 281.84mm/11.09" Mounting bolt to mounting bolt (when set). Howard correct me if I'm wrong here please.
Absolutly great customer service! I read 100reds of posts and his website along with others before I finally decided to pull the trigger on my Ohlins. My advice to those of you considering the same, would be to do your home work before you call Howard.
If you at least have the general knowlege of what your talking about, the conversation will be more productive. Don't try to act like you know it all because you read everything, just familiarize yourself with the product. Howard is an expert and will know in about 30 seconds how much knowlege you actually have on the issue, but he will appreciate that you took the time to get famililarized.
Now that I have them installed, I'm really enjoying the ride! Howard told me to ride and break them in for about 500 to 1000 miles before I adjust to the proper setting. That means the ride will get even better, thats crazy, because the ride is so much better now! This was a great decision on my part and even better is that I have learned more about suspensions because of dealing with Howard.
Absolutly great customer service! I read 100reds of posts and his website along with others before I finally decided to pull the trigger on my Ohlins. My advice to those of you considering the same, would be to do your home work before you call Howard.
If you at least have the general knowlege of what your talking about, the conversation will be more productive. Don't try to act like you know it all because you read everything, just familiarize yourself with the product. Howard is an expert and will know in about 30 seconds how much knowlege you actually have on the issue, but he will appreciate that you took the time to get famililarized.
Now that I have them installed, I'm really enjoying the ride! Howard told me to ride and break them in for about 500 to 1000 miles before I adjust to the proper setting. That means the ride will get even better, thats crazy, because the ride is so much better now! This was a great decision on my part and even better is that I have learned more about suspensions because of dealing with Howard.
It is not that simple! Stock shocks have around 2" of travel while the Ohlins we are talking of here have around 3". If the sag on both is correctly adjusted (admittedly not possible with stock shocks), compressed length of 13" stock shocks would be around 12.3in, with 13" Ohlins it would be 12". Wuhich is the lowest to sit on?!
Penskes cost much more than Ohlins. However they are the brand Howard offered us before he took up with Ohlins.
Penskes cost much more than Ohlins. However they are the brand Howard offered us before he took up with Ohlins.
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Well I recieved and installed my #2-#2(A) Ohlins, they are 12 1/8"/309.5mm and have 3 34"/83mm stroke /3= 1.08"/27.666mm = riders sag, making the shock 309.5mm (-) 27.66mm = 281.84mm/11.09" Mounting bolt to mounting bolt (when set). Howard correct me if I'm wrong here please.
Absolutly great customer service! I read 100reds of posts and his website along with others before I finally decided to pull the trigger on my Ohlins. My advice to those of you considering the same, would be to do your home work before you call Howard.
If you at least have the general knowlege of what your talking about, the conversation will be more productive. Don't try to act like you know it all because you read everything, just familiarize yourself with the product. Howard is an expert and will know in about 30 seconds how much knowlege you actually have on the issue, but he will appreciate that you took the time to get famililarized.
Now that I have them installed, I'm really enjoying the ride! Howard told me to ride and break them in for about 500 to 1000 miles before I adjust to the proper setting. That means the ride will get even better, thats crazy, because the ride is so much better now! This was a great decision on my part and even better is that I have learned more about suspensions because of dealing with Howard.
Absolutly great customer service! I read 100reds of posts and his website along with others before I finally decided to pull the trigger on my Ohlins. My advice to those of you considering the same, would be to do your home work before you call Howard.
If you at least have the general knowlege of what your talking about, the conversation will be more productive. Don't try to act like you know it all because you read everything, just familiarize yourself with the product. Howard is an expert and will know in about 30 seconds how much knowlege you actually have on the issue, but he will appreciate that you took the time to get famililarized.
Now that I have them installed, I'm really enjoying the ride! Howard told me to ride and break them in for about 500 to 1000 miles before I adjust to the proper setting. That means the ride will get even better, thats crazy, because the ride is so much better now! This was a great decision on my part and even better is that I have learned more about suspensions because of dealing with Howard.
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Well you asked, didn't you? → ☻ ░ You can also use these symbols as part of your password so it is really hard for the hackers to get into your account. Now who says bikers are dumb? Happy Halloween!
Well you asked, didn't you? → ☻ ░ You can also use these symbols as part of your password so it is really hard for the hackers to get into your account. Now who says bikers are dumb? Happy Halloween!
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