I went racing at Auto Club Speedway yesterday with WERA. Riding the #31 Iceman 250 Ninja I battled with two kids who weren’t even born when I started racing, their combined age is less than mine alone. It was a great race, we were stuck behind a SV650 till he ran off the track. The photo is from the back of the SV as we exit T 5/6 on the first lap.

I just found out that bike shops charge hundreds of dollars to fit your bicycle to you. People pay because it makes a big difference, you go faster with less work and more comfort.

Setting your motorcycle up to fit you is just as important. The thing is, I’ve been helping people adjust their bars, grips, levers, pegs and pedals since I started working on bikes. I even do it when I’m being a suspension vendor.

Check out the Coaching page on my web site. We start with fitting the bike to you and it’s included.

These finished R-6 forks are drying after being washed. Note the Travel O-Rings. The set up notes on your invoice will include the Max Travel. In this case, 6 mm. That is the distances from the bottom of the travel o-ring to the top of the foot when the forks are bottomed.

The left fork has been bottomed. The right fork o-ring is in the normal street riding zone.

Remember that travel o-rings only show you what the max travel is and that info is of limited use.

Peter sent his Triumph Tiger forks wrapped up in this nice blanket as packing. His getting his forks back with new seals & oil, better than stock chrome, powdered coated feet, stronger springs, good valving and his blanket.

Follow up photo of the installed forks.  Note the Bimota in the background.  It has LE too.

Time for some shop and trailer photo’s. Send me your’s along with some notes and I’ll use the good ones for more Blog Posts. Below is the Me Wall of my shop, how I transport my tool box in my trailer and my pit set up at the track.

A tour of the shop I send forks to for re-chroming.
Step one is to grind off the old chrome down to bare steel:  This lathe is in operation, you can see the coolant flowing over the grinding wheel and the tube.

Step two is applying the new chrome by electroplating in this big tank: The balls floating on top help keep bad stuff from getting into the air.

After the new chrome is on the tube it must be ground down to the correct size and smoothness: This lathe is not operating, the tube has just come from the tank.

The final step is back on the first lathe for finishing.

Plan on a month (sometimes more) from the time your tubes leave my shop till I get them back. That’s a long time but the work they do here is great.