Who is running TBT racing suspension? reviews?

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looking for into on tbt, the good the bad the ugly the great?

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GoggleFiend904 12/13/2020 9:29pm
12/13/2020 9:29pm
I didn’t have the greatest luck to be honest. But I’ve had bad luck with a few tuners. AHM and N2Dirt have been good
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PMR 3 12/13/2020 10:12pm
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Bought a bike from a friend that had TBT suspension. It performed well.
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mattyhamz2 12/13/2020 11:20pm
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GoggleFiend904 wrote:
I didn’t have the greatest luck to be honest. But I’ve had bad luck with a few tuners. AHM and N2Dirt have been good
I’ll second what GoggleFiend said. I have no personal experience with TBT, but he and another SoCal tuner did some pretty shady things to a few different buddies suspension and it ended up costing each of them a good chunk of money, including one buddy having to buy a new shock body for a bike with less than 70 hours on it.

N2Dirt is my go to and he does great work. He has people from all over the country shipping him suspension. Brian is a great guy with a ton of experience and knowledge.
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GoggleFiend904 12/14/2020 6:00am
12/14/2020 6:00am
GoggleFiend904 wrote:
I didn’t have the greatest luck to be honest. But I’ve had bad luck with a few tuners. AHM and N2Dirt have been good
mattyhamz2 wrote:
I’ll second what GoggleFiend said. I have no personal experience with TBT, but he and another SoCal tuner did some pretty shady things to a few...
I’ll second what GoggleFiend said. I have no personal experience with TBT, but he and another SoCal tuner did some pretty shady things to a few different buddies suspension and it ended up costing each of them a good chunk of money, including one buddy having to buy a new shock body for a bike with less than 70 hours on it.

N2Dirt is my go to and he does great work. He has people from all over the country shipping him suspension. Brian is a great guy with a ton of experience and knowledge.
One of my issues was the shock body also. Completely shot within 20 hours
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adam8781 wrote:
looking for into on tbt, the good the bad the ugly the great?

Travis has been around a long time. Personally I'd go with Dan Moore.
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walent215 12/14/2020 6:27am
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GoggleFiend904 wrote:
I didn’t have the greatest luck to be honest. But I’ve had bad luck with a few tuners. AHM and N2Dirt have been good
mattyhamz2 wrote:
I’ll second what GoggleFiend said. I have no personal experience with TBT, but he and another SoCal tuner did some pretty shady things to a few...
I’ll second what GoggleFiend said. I have no personal experience with TBT, but he and another SoCal tuner did some pretty shady things to a few different buddies suspension and it ended up costing each of them a good chunk of money, including one buddy having to buy a new shock body for a bike with less than 70 hours on it.

N2Dirt is my go to and he does great work. He has people from all over the country shipping him suspension. Brian is a great guy with a ton of experience and knowledge.
GoggleFiend904 wrote:
One of my issues was the shock body also. Completely shot within 20 hours
Threads damaged? Spring running through?
Just curious what the problem is?
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LungButter 12/14/2020 7:24am
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walent215 wrote:
Threads damaged? Spring running through?
Just curious what the problem is?
The TBT I know probably drilled holes in something that wasn't supposed to be drilled, thinking they were smarter than the engineer who designed the suspension.

Just a guess....but I know 2 people personally who had to buy Yamaha internal fork parts to fix a similar problem a few years back.
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Jeremy Macbeth 12/14/2020 7:46am
12/14/2020 7:46am
I've been very happy with my TBT tuned Beta suspension. Travis has always been willing to help fine tune my suspension when I see him at the track, even two years after he initially did the valving.
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mattyhamz2 12/14/2020 8:05am
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mattyhamz2 wrote:
I’ll second what GoggleFiend said. I have no personal experience with TBT, but he and another SoCal tuner did some pretty shady things to a few...
I’ll second what GoggleFiend said. I have no personal experience with TBT, but he and another SoCal tuner did some pretty shady things to a few different buddies suspension and it ended up costing each of them a good chunk of money, including one buddy having to buy a new shock body for a bike with less than 70 hours on it.

N2Dirt is my go to and he does great work. He has people from all over the country shipping him suspension. Brian is a great guy with a ton of experience and knowledge.
GoggleFiend904 wrote:
One of my issues was the shock body also. Completely shot within 20 hours
walent215 wrote:
Threads damaged? Spring running through?
Just curious what the problem is?
Internal. I got to see the damage inside and there were deep grooves from top to bottom and other damage. It was bad!
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mattyhamz2 12/14/2020 8:06am
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GoggleFiend904 wrote:
I didn’t have the greatest luck to be honest. But I’ve had bad luck with a few tuners. AHM and N2Dirt have been good
mattyhamz2 wrote:
I’ll second what GoggleFiend said. I have no personal experience with TBT, but he and another SoCal tuner did some pretty shady things to a few...
I’ll second what GoggleFiend said. I have no personal experience with TBT, but he and another SoCal tuner did some pretty shady things to a few different buddies suspension and it ended up costing each of them a good chunk of money, including one buddy having to buy a new shock body for a bike with less than 70 hours on it.

N2Dirt is my go to and he does great work. He has people from all over the country shipping him suspension. Brian is a great guy with a ton of experience and knowledge.
GoggleFiend904 wrote:
One of my issues was the shock body also. Completely shot within 20 hours
Damn! No way? Yours too?
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mattman631 12/14/2020 8:12am
12/14/2020 8:12am
I use TBT Racing out of Oklahoma (I know this doesnt help in Canada..) and have not had an issue. I think like any type of service, if the person doing the service does not care then you run the chance of the raw end of the deal. Brady at TBT Oklahoma does a great job and if he made a mistake he would take care of it.
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GoggleFiend904 12/14/2020 8:15am
12/14/2020 8:15am
mattyhamz2 wrote:
I’ll second what GoggleFiend said. I have no personal experience with TBT, but he and another SoCal tuner did some pretty shady things to a few...
I’ll second what GoggleFiend said. I have no personal experience with TBT, but he and another SoCal tuner did some pretty shady things to a few different buddies suspension and it ended up costing each of them a good chunk of money, including one buddy having to buy a new shock body for a bike with less than 70 hours on it.

N2Dirt is my go to and he does great work. He has people from all over the country shipping him suspension. Brian is a great guy with a ton of experience and knowledge.
GoggleFiend904 wrote:
One of my issues was the shock body also. Completely shot within 20 hours
walent215 wrote:
Threads damaged? Spring running through?
Just curious what the problem is?
Scored up. Possibly from an aftermarket bladder that I didn’t ask for. I believe the nitrogen and oil mix. The shock got soft then I sent to to someone else and ended up buying a trax
GoggleFiend904 12/14/2020 8:29am
12/14/2020 8:29am
mattyhamz2 wrote:
I’ll second what GoggleFiend said. I have no personal experience with TBT, but he and another SoCal tuner did some pretty shady things to a few...
I’ll second what GoggleFiend said. I have no personal experience with TBT, but he and another SoCal tuner did some pretty shady things to a few different buddies suspension and it ended up costing each of them a good chunk of money, including one buddy having to buy a new shock body for a bike with less than 70 hours on it.

N2Dirt is my go to and he does great work. He has people from all over the country shipping him suspension. Brian is a great guy with a ton of experience and knowledge.
GoggleFiend904 wrote:
One of my issues was the shock body also. Completely shot within 20 hours
mattyhamz2 wrote:
Damn! No way? Yours too?
Yup lol
Herb Eaversmells 12/14/2020 8:44am
12/14/2020 8:44am
I have many YZ’s in the last 15 years (same bike) and had plenty of fork and shock revalves. Had TBT Dave do my last YZ and it is the best handling YZ I’ve ever had. Good price, great service and great guy.
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Tomok 12/14/2020 9:41am
12/14/2020 9:41am
I had TBT Arizona do a KYB SSS conversion on my KTM 4Cs forks when Jonny Weisman was there. Awesome forks. He has his own shop now. The Ride Shop Arizona
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stone881 12/14/2020 9:47am
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Tomok wrote:
I had TBT Arizona do a KYB SSS conversion on my KTM 4Cs forks when Jonny Weisman was there. Awesome forks. He has his own shop...
I had TBT Arizona do a KYB SSS conversion on my KTM 4Cs forks when Jonny Weisman was there. Awesome forks. He has his own shop now. The Ride Shop Arizona
I had the same and bladder conversion for the shock. Jonny did mine and the results were excellent.
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MotofactioN 12/14/2020 9:55am
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If a shock body is destroyed that quickly then there were probably lots of metal shavings that were not blown out after drilling/machining a part, possibly when drilling the peen off the shaft.

Those metal shavings will get you every time. Pinch
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Travis707 12/14/2020 12:02pm
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Tomok wrote:
I had TBT Arizona do a KYB SSS conversion on my KTM 4Cs forks when Jonny Weisman was there. Awesome forks. He has his own shop...
I had TBT Arizona do a KYB SSS conversion on my KTM 4Cs forks when Jonny Weisman was there. Awesome forks. He has his own shop now. The Ride Shop Arizona
stone881 wrote:
I had the same and bladder conversion for the shock. Jonny did mine and the results were excellent.
FWIW, Jonny did a TBT revalve on my ‘07 KX450 for Moto/WORCS racing and nailed it first try. Big improvement. Very satisfied customer and highly recommended Jonny.
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groggylbc 12/15/2020 5:24pm
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ive had them do 2 of my bikes..... night and day better then what they were. also, sent my cone valve forks to a big name place to get resprung and valved.....they sucked. I was super bummed
travis took them and now they,re amazing!!!
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Monk 12/15/2020 5:30pm
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Back in 2012 I attended a GP style race in Washington, coming all the way down from northern BC. For some reason I had a mechanical in moto 1 but the promoter lent me his WR450 with TBT suspension for moto 2. Without changing a clicker, I still remember it being some of the best KYB stuff I had ever ridden...
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adam8781 12/17/2020 3:07pm
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all a good read, so far as i can tell, the settings are really good and if you have the right tuner/technician it works out great.

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