Upgrade to enjoy this feature!
Vital MX fantasy is free to play, but Premium users receive great benefits. Premium benefits include:
- View and download rider stats
- Pick trends
- Create a private league
- And more!
Only $10 for all 2026 SX, MX, and SMX series.
You'll save a whole lot of money and be able to change settings on your own.
The Shop
DeCal Works Huge Plastic Inventory of UFO and Polisport kits.
Luxon 4-Post Bar Mounts
$189.95 - $239.95
It is much better to find someone local that has a good reputation that will be able to watch you ride and test with you to get the right set up.
All the big companies pretty much have the standard set ups for each level. Nothing special just some shim changes that anyone can do.
Now at the top A class level and pro you run into alot more that gets changed.
Give Tim a call and you'll be impressed with the customer service and settings.
Ask for Tim to get a quote.
Obviously I'm an Enzo fan, but I would really suggest going with a company that is at the track you race at - trackside support rocks.
As for me the only tuner I let work on my stuff is Jeremy Wilkey at MX-Tech.
I believe any of those companies could make your suspension work very well for you, but the key is to set it up for you (i.e., customer service). That is why I gave so much credence to their availability and support. Plus, they do awesome work!
I say RG3!!
Pit Row
All I can say is, WOW! dropped a couple of seconds a lap IMMEDIATELY, and haven't gone more than 2 clicks either way ever since. They KNOW! It's that obvious.
I could go into greater detail about what I found inside the Enzo "work", but I don't want to bash or embarrass them. Long story short, I was shocked!
No pun intended!
I think me and him are on the same page on what I'm looking for now. And since he lives close and is willing to go spend some time with me setting everything up.....I'm going to end up using him.
I did tell him that in years past , I wasn't ever really happy with the Race tech stuff he was doing. He agreed and he mentioned that these past 4-5 years , he has incorporated many new , and different parts and says his suspension knowledge itself is way better to boot.
he also mentioned that in a lot of his oil changes and other mods , that the FC suspension stuff he has worked on....is setup a LOT like what he does. He mentioned that Enzo and RG3 do things a little differently that himself and FC.
BTW.....thanks to all you guys for the input! I'm definitely leaning towards the FC mods along with Pro=motion doing all the work. I'll get it figured out.
Learn to do it yourself and 95% of the time you can get exactly the right feel with different springs and oil heights.
Most of these suspension outfits are a joke. Some fool who doesn't even know how to turn clickers sends a note with their weight and "riding ability."
The tech slides in one shim, charges for a few parts they didn't even install, and tells you its just like the pros use! And thanks to the placebo effect, the rider feels a "huge difference!"
Like what has been mentioned in quite a few of the replies here , "most" suspension guys will get you close. And in my case , I'll have the guy out at the track with me helping me get it all dialed in. Besides that , there are internal parts and so forth in which I don't own the right "specialty" tool to remove / modify them. I have no idea on what valves , how many shims , oil heights , pre-load springs , tube height and so forth.....I don't even know where to start.
With all the things some of these guys ( i'm speaking of Dave himself ) does on my suspension ( or what he can do ) is a TON of hours I don't have to spend working on my bike , or messing something up. That's all I need to do is screw up a $2000.00 pair of forks.
For me it's worth every penny! These new 450's are so friggin' fast bone stock.....the best money spent is getting the suspension dialed in. Maybe a pipe and some other little knick-knacks on getting the "feel" right.......but by far , the suspension is the most important on these 450's.
Sure.....sooner or later , I will learn most of it , and will be able to set up the bike on my own. But for right now , I need help ( for this spring anyways ).
to each his own.
They are small, so you really get to work with the person who will actually be doing your suspension and they will be able to talk with you about how it make it work and will take it back until you're completely satisfied. They travel the northwest (especially Utah, Idaho, Montana, Washington) every weekend with a rig set up to do revalves and respring bikes on site and next year will be heading to all the Am. Nationals.
Give J.t. a call over there and at the very least pick his brain. Their website is www.performancefixracing.com
Shaggy at straightline suspention out of tyler texas is my guy! He took time to talk to me about his suspention "theory" for lack of a better word. He feels that the rebound damping is the most important part of the stroke. He stated that he really wasn't going to change the compression action of my forks (due to the fact that my model of bike had pretty good action to begin with, he has worked with all the brands extensively), but he was goin to drasticly change the rebound damping, esspecially on the shock. The result was a bike that tracks EXTREMELY WELL!!! I told him that i always liked a very connected feel, I like feeling like my tires are in the dirt not on top of it. Told him that i like it borderline soft. Let me tell you, that bike WILL NOT SWAP! Belive me, I have tried. Its crazy, when it does break traction it is so predictible. Best stuff ever! Yes it does bottom on huge hits, but that only matters when im learning a new track really. Once you get the big jumps dialed its buttery smooth.
As he get's faster (And is hittin' ramps...he's a nut)...they keep making the necessary adjustments: Jus' like a factory would during testing and development.
I've seen, rode & raced on some REALLY good stuff from MB-1 (Jay Clark's various projects) and RG-3 (A Suzuki owned scoot that I rode @ the Lake Elsinore GP-2009).
A few years agao...I rode KX's w/ Bones' Off-Road set-up: Again, AWESOME!
This year in Baja, I rode a CRF-X w/ the suspension freshened & stiffened up by a company calles AS Racing...good stuff, too,
I've seen excellent results from ALL of these folks.
Post a reply to: Fav after market suspension.....Enzo , PC , FC , RG3 ?