jayceklein40

I wear one of these when racing my dirt bike so do a lot of the top pros, its amazing how much more free you are to move around and not have all this sh*t hanging off your back and jumping around. They make one that has the same design where it holds the water on your hips but still has a back part. that's what I use for mountain biking. Its called the camelbak octane LR.

I almost thought Semenuk grew a beard...

They used to say the process baths used to anodize aluminum would attack and dissolve steel parts. But I guess it's something new they are coming on to..

Old Suzuki full floater suspension set up...

If you can't anodize it you can't kashima it. But you can DLC or titanium nitrate coat it which works just as well.

I have been racing dirt bikes for over 10 years and at a very competitive level in desert races, hare scrambles, enduros, Grand Prix, ect. The races are from 80-120 miles even 600+ miles. I've had plenty of sponsors and one of them being a suspension sponsor. (Ive spent endless hours testing suspension settings with multiple companies so ive learned alot about suspension) Suspension is my biggest problem, heat is a huge factor on a dirt bike, not only do you have heat from friction you have the exhaust an inch away from the resivor causing a huge problem. My later suzukis have a showa shock with an 18mm shock shaft and I've learned that it generates more heat. So I have to put in a 16mm shock shaft that's DLC or titanium nitrate coated (to help with heat) I also have to put in an aluminum piston because the stock steel piston doesn't expand at the same rate as the aluminum shock body under heat. An aluminum shaft heats up faster especially when its bigger in diameter. Fox is on target pretty much copying an ohlins TTX shock which is a good shock. Now the biggest problem that leads to instant shock fade is the conventional way of bleeding the shock by hand (it doesn't work shocks are too complex now) you have to send it in to be vacuum bled. Look it up on YouTube and watch a shock be vacuum bled. Also, every shock needs a high speed compression adjuster period.