Nitron aluminium body?

[speedy231278]

Of course, there's me going on about Ohlins like I'm about to buy one (if I was, it would be one of the last things to go on the bike, after a new skin, possibly some new rads, hoses and maybe a double stack pipe if Tyga make some more), when I've not tinkered with shock or fork settings ever in my life... lol

Anyone got a guide to best practices for fiddling with suspension settings? Past measuring the static sag and using a cable tie to determine your current fork travel it's all a bit beyond me. As far as I'm concerned, the bike handles great and is presumably on stock settings, however for all I know it could be handling pants and I'm just used to it. I don't ride really fast around corners as I'm not completely mad (honest!) and don't do track days, so I don't exactly push the limit and as a result I've never had an issue where the bike has decided it doesn't want to do something I've asked of it. I guess the stock settings on stock parts are designed to be middle of the road and roughly suitable for all weights and styles, so I guess that's why....

[Drunkn Munky]

The stock shock is setup for 7 stone japanese midgets and is also very old, yes they handle great stock but with decent kit they are amazing IMO. Even on the road its worth upgrading.

[speedy231278]

About 5 MOTs ago I was told that the shock had 'a reduced damping effect'. I've not been back to that place since, and two different places have done the bike for the last few years, and never mentioned anything (nor the excessively stiff head bearings the same place failed it on after having deliberately broken my mudguard to 'prove' it was dodgy) about it. That's one reason I hate advisories on MOTs and think they're useless. Something's crap, or it's not, anything else is the opinion of the tester.

Anyway, back to the shocks, I don't like the idea of filing bits of frame or modifying mounts made for other bikes. I don't know if when Ohlins shocks are modified to fit the NCs if the existing parts are fettled or replaced with purpose made ones, but I would prefer the latter simply because it's been designed to work on the vehicle in question. Right now I'm looking at the options for the shock in my usual hypothetical way, much as the exhaust, body, wheels and rads, and the all singing version with hydraulic preload adjuster takes the 'that would be nice' bolt on goodies selection to about £7K... lol

[VFRkieran]

I said about this in another thread a while back, Nitron have allmost exactly copied the Ohlins internals in thier shocks there is very little diffrence between them when you strip them apart. Like Tony says your not going to notice any diffrence unless your a very special rider. That yellow spring does look pretty trick though, im sure guy at nitron would love it if you asked for yours to be painted yellow

[StrayAlien]

Nitron have almost exactly copied the Ohlins internals

I saw that topic. Very interesting. Does that mean some service parts are interchangeable?

Re "being a gun rider and not noticing". Agreed, I am not a gun and probably wont (yet ... :-) )

[VFRkieran]

Nitron have almost exactly copied the Ohlins internals

I saw that topic. Very interesting. Does that mean some service parts are interchangeable?

Re "being a gun rider and not noticing". Agreed, I am not a gun and probably wont (yet ... :-) )

Hmmm i wouldnt like to say if parts are interchangeable but id never bet against it, the bits i know for certain that are copied are mainly the shim stacks and when i say copied i mean we used to have spec sheets with with the ohlins logo on top, dont know how they got hold of them but they came straight from the factory thats for sure, pistons are very similar if not exactly the same and the same goes for the rods.