Suspension Maintenance and Customising
Reactive Suspension's workshop is fitted out with the very latest tools and equipment necessary to carry out fork, shock and steering damper servicing to an extremely high standard.
We offer a range of low friction coatings for fork stanchions and shock shafts including Titanium Nitriding, and DLC coating.
Dyno Testing
We have a number of shock dyno's with a wide range of capabilities for testing forks and shocks. We can test your damper units, and supply graphs to show you exactly what forces they are producing. We also have the ability to test smaller forces to analyse seal friction and stiction.
Whether they're car dampers, mountain bike shocks or motorcycle shocks, they can all be tested on the dyno.
We also carry out diagnostic and development testing for commercial customers.
Fork & Shock Servicing
During a service the suspension units are fully disassembled, thoroughly cleaned and inspected for wear, fork stanchions and shock shafts are polished to remove any pitting which could damage seals, and reduce stiction. If necessary shock bodies and cartridge tubes are honed to improve sealing. The components are measured for correct tolerances and the units assembled using the finest lubricants available.
Steering Damper Servicing
The most common problem we see with Ohlins steering dampers is air in the damper. With heavy use air can be dragged in through the seals, collecting in the damper body. Air creates lag in the damper so the bars can move quite a long way before enough damping is generated to slow the movement.
Coatings
We offer a range of low friction coatings that can be applied to steel motorcycle fork tubes and shock shafts to reduce stiction and improve their wear characteristics. These coatings are extremely thin (2.5 microns) and need to be applied to a good surface finish, being a thin coating they won't repair any corrosion, scores or stone chips. Damaged or corroded tubes would need to be replaced or re-chromed first before they could be coated.
Unfortunately we don't have any coating that can be applied to Aluminium Mountain Bike fork stanchions.
Titanium Nitride Coating
Titanium Nitride Coating is a very hard (2500 HV), low friction gold coating that can be applied to fork stanchions and shock shafts. It has a higher hardness rating than hard chrome giving a greater wear resistance and is a self lubricating, non-stick surface with a coefficient of friction of 0.65, it will reduce the stiction in the suspension components leading to a faster response time.
Diamond Like Coating
Diamond Like Coating is an extremely hard (3500HV) black coating that can be applied to fork stanchions and shock shafts that is harder still than Titanium Nitride. With a coefficient of friction of 0.1 it is the lowest friction coating available improving suspension action considerably.
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