The Triumph Tiger has a non-adjustable cartridge fork. It’s under sprung and the damping curve is wrong. The correct spring rate was easy. The correct high speed damping was not too hard to work out. But what to do about the low speed damping took a few tries.

If your bike has a non-adjustable fork, you too can have LE stickers because this fix will work on your forks just as well.

Photo of a front BMW shock that can be rebuilt. It’s a close up of the seam where the cap presses into the shock body. Caps that are folded over or welded here can’t be rebuilt.

My TZ, sorry, Russell’s TZ made it to England today. He changed his Valentines plans to rush down to the docks to pick it up. He ripped the cardboard off the create to see the bike and is very happy with it. But check out the cool old cars in the warehouse.

The name is Kenny Anderson, take note now so you too can say you knew him when.

Or maybe its a Penske shock built to the latest Lindemann Engineering spec with a short hose so the reservoir can mount under the battery box. Either, will be trouble for the bad guys.

My racing friend Mike Woolaway is building top end custom bikes now at Deus Ex Machina. When he called asking for some help on this project I said yes. We took a set of Ohlins dirt bike forks apart, sent the tubes out for anodizing, shortened them to fit this bike, then re-sprung and re-valved to fit the bike and rider. Here’s what Deus Ex has to say:

THE SEVENISH

Kinda, sorta, maybe the seventh bike to roll off the rack in Woolie’s Workshop, The Sevenish is the latest bike that’s been brought into being by Deus Ex Machina’s US Motorcycle Design Director, Michael Woolaway. A bit about the name—Although the total number of finished builds out of Woolies Workshops numbers eight or nine, this bike has the very distinctive “007 Woolie” stamp pressed into its steel skeleton, meaning it’s a full frame-up, Deus Ex Machina manufactured, custom build: about as Deus as a bike can get. Combine that with the fact that the build was commissioned by motion picture helicopter pilot Fred North, who just happens to have done aerial film work on several Bond movies, and the name The Sevenish finds clearer focus. Don’t let the wishy washy nomenclature fool you, though. The Sevenish, much like its owner, is incredibly precise in its purpose. And it is without a doubt incredibly fun to ride.

It’s a full competition dirt track set up that’s super light and handles extremely well. It’s planted. The seating position is very forward, right at the base of the tank. There’s a lot of ground clearance. The tires are dirt track racing spec. “The Sevenish spins up the tire accelerating in first gear, loves to back into turns and slides into stop signs. It’s really really fun to ride,” says Woolie. With only about two-ish people in the world that can attest to that, we’ll take his word for it.

Woolie’s Workshop would like to extend a very special thanks to:
-Ed Sorbo at Lindemann Engineering
-James Elliand at Rizoma USA
-Pierre Vallaincourt at Works Performance

I valve Ninja forks with 15weight oil so you can fine tune your damping by changing to 10 or 20 weight oil.

But getting the oil out requires the forks to be upside down and this is best done with the forks off the bike. For $50 I can go Old School and add Fork Drains so you don’t have to flip your bike to change the oil.

The $50 price applies when you have me rebuild and re-valve your damper rod forks for $300 for a total of $350.

For these 300 Ninja forks I also cut the stock springs to get the rate this rider needs for $75. So the total for this job was $425.

Check out Terry’s Black Bird shock. Rebuilt with air valve added. Re-valved. Re-sprung. Note the nice spacer to make the standard size spring fit the funny size shock.