Mupo LcRr

Racetech told me that they hadn't done a Touring yet, but if I sent them my forks they'd make a kit and wouldn't charge me for the installation in return for being the beta tester, or whatever you want to call it. That was a few years ago, maybe they've done one by now.
Honestly, I don't think I'd put any more money into this bike, being that I have other bikes that don't need suspension modifications to handle well. I can't get rid of it, though, it's the only one my wife will ride, lol, she likes it more than I do.
 
Interesting, your link looks like a complete rebuild, springs and kit, but maybe I'm missing something, doesn't seem enough money there.
 
The racetech gold valve setup for tourings is good and not super expensive, damping rod vs cartridge, their totally different from other rockets.

Traxxion is an option I've long considered.

KFG, a kick ass suspension shop is near me, but, I don't want to redo work again, no one works on my bike but me (ok, maybe Neville were he near by). Without fail, every, single, time, someone else does work I end up fixing/redoing it, I'm over it.

I should really educate myself on building my own cartridge replacement setup as a few here have done, but I'm not very motivated to do it.

As it is Traxxion, Mupo, and Ohlins all make offerings that will bolts into the R3 fork tubes if you know which part numbers to order, going to give that dude in Texas a call and see what he can do.

The reason I'm look, only weeks after saying to a few people I'm totally happy with the forks is rebound damping, no amount of tweaking stock cartridges will net the digressive comp/rebound rates desied.
 
Claviger said:
As it is Traxxion, Mupo, and Ohlins all make offerings that will bolts into the R3 fork tubes if you know which part numbers to order, going to give that dude in Texas a call and see what he can do.
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What matters is that they at least come CLOSE.

I know Maxton won't ship to you, but they asked a fair number of questions before shipping my cartridges over. I had Damian at DMX do them (while I watched) because he wanted to see the Maxtons anyway and gave my forks a full overhaul (seals, polishing etc). After I had to back off rebound 1/2 turn from Maxton recommendation and also reduce the air gap. But I'd not want to have to revalve something off-the-shelf.

The weight transfer effect of an undersized front and E-Max rear increases and not a little over stock R3 rubber. It's the @1olbull axle height thing. If the cartridge maker does not know, and compensate for this - then expect dive. Though to be honest it's more that a Stock R3 dives little for all sorts of reasons (mostly not good ones).

Over all I am not a fan of progressive wound springs. I do like progressive springing though. I'm a fan of Air Springs though they can be a a bugger to set up.
 
I like the performance improvement enough on the Rocket, I went back to Kenny at MRP and had him upgrade front and rear of my 2014 Honda CTX -- HUGE improvement on that bike.
 
The Mupo set-up may be very good. But, not enough information provided for me to buy a set. No reviews on their site; no questions; and I still haven't heard of anyone actually racing an R3 on a road course. So, is it a real race set-up meaning really stiff and dampened way too much for street riding, or is it a performance street set-up marketed as "Racing" to get ignorant old fools like us to buy them?

I am always alarmed when the marketing guys use language to make something more special than it really is. Ergal is a 7075 aluminum alloy. Why not call it that? Special wear resist surface coating usually means anodizing. Yes, there are proprietary coatings that work really well, so why not say what the coating process actually is? I want to see data, and the more the better. What have they to hide but commonality?

An aside here: I read recently an ad for valve springs from a major automotive speed equipment manufacturer. The copy touted their new process for manufacturing valve springs. This process made the steel denser, stronger and tougher in their springs than the competition's. Wow, great. They called it "Radial Compaction." It sounded really impressive unless you actually know how spring wire is made. Wire is drawn (pulled) through dies, each die getting progressively smaller than the prior die. Thus for example 3/8" diameter, soft annealed wire, coiled on huge spools is turned into straight, round, tough, 3/16" diameter wire, or smaller, which is then heat treated prior to coiling into springs. This drawing process has been used for hundreds of years in the production of wire. The more you reduce the diameter, the denser and tougher the wire becomes. The equipment has evolved, the process controlled better, and the steel quality improved over the years. However, the only thing new about "their" process is the name. If a company is willing to use deception to sell their product, what is said about the actual product they sell?

End of rant.
 
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