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Fork and shock coatings
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I believe MX tech sends their stuff out to Japan for kashima coating so you may be better off just going through them and getting that National Shock.
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Also I think for performance it’s not value for money but let’s be honest we all get our stuff coated because it looks the dogs bollocks!
As with all the top line stuff, everything is about getting the parts to be as close to perfect as possible, and that means tighter tolerances on the parts, That is how you get the repeatability in the build, and from that the repeatability of the performance.
We have run DLC coated parts in the past in engines, and lets you push parts a little bit more, with a lower chance of failure. Rockers, pivots, gudgeon pins, and superfinishing of gears and selectors, all makes things better.
Just adding the coating isnt enough, you need to go all in with everything.
If I understand your point, I think I agree with it. Coatings alone are expensive and don’t do much on their own, so you need to spend a lot on other suspension components. At that point buy kit suspension. Why even both coating the stock stuff?
In all reality I think the difference between DLC and Kashima is an arbitrarily small %.
Turned out amazing and the price was decent.
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Because you are getting the full deal.
I have a set of full factory Marzocchi's Supermoto Forks from 2012, that money couldnt buy back then, and they have been on 5 bikes, becasue whatever you do to the newer forks, you cant get them to be as good as these, simply because the mass produced bits just dont work as well.
At the time these were made, you could buy the whole stock bike for the same price.
What tends to happen, is folk spend a shit ton of money on getting DLC coatings done, and get their forks rebuilt, and then think they are better becasue they must be. .
I doubt there is anyone who could tell if a bike has DLC coated legs or not , just by riding it.
Personally all the modern fad for Ceratcoating everything is lost on me for the average guy.
Some people use the excuse that it helps to protect stuff, but honestly, these days , tracks that destroy bikes are few and far between compared to how it used to be.
We even went as far as making our own shocks on the Rally car , but that was a disaster becasue the engineering team went mental and designed something that was impossible to make to the tolerances that would give you the ability to build 4 dampers out of the same bits , and get them even remotely close to the same spec.
It was all Hard anodised , properly coated, and made by proper people, but it was a clutserfuck, we needed to alter the spec for one rally to stiffen them up , and as the system, was more holes than shims, and you couldnt make the holes smaller, so they had to remake a ton of parts.. cost £28000, and we could have done the same on the Ohlins they were trying to be better than for £12.
Honestly, Cycling, and MTB stuff, at the top level is pretty high tech even by F1 standards, and even the tiniest bit can help.
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