Touring
Touring is a great way to travel, but not if your suspension makes it a chore. By the time you are loaded up with luggage and a pillion the stock suspension is often overloaded, causing geometry problems and undesirable handling characteristics.
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When we customize your suspension we take into account how heavy you are, your riding history, the kind of riding you do and your budget. If we feel you would benefit most from an aftermarket shock, we can supply units set-up to suit your weight, not just off the shelf units. |
Our settings are individualized so your support does not end at the time of delivery. We will work with you to make your suspension optimum for you with unlimited phone support and rework if needed. We are so confidant of our work we offer a money back guarantee. |
- Road Suspension Setup Guide
- Tools
- Lowering Links
- YSS Suspension
- Suspension Lowering
- Our Workshop
- Teknik Fork and Shock Springs
- Parts and Consumables
- Teknik T-Valve Kits
We take great pride in our customer support and part of that is showing you how to get the best out of your bike and its new set-up. Take the time to read our Road Suspension Set-up Guide HERE so that you too can get the most out of your riding time.
Want to work on your own suspension? All our tools are professional quality, designed for long life and accuracy. You can save time and get scratch and dent free professional results from the tools available HERE.
Or, if you're not sure which size tools will fit your bike's suspension, why not look it up HERE.
Want a cheap fix to lowering that does not involve a full suspension rebuild and set-up? Lowering links are your simple solution to lower the rear 25mm, 50mm and 75mm with simple bolt in links. While they do not give you the benefits of a full set up, they are a cost effective solution to help you get your bike to a more comfortable level. Available soon.
Y.S.S. shocks come with different features like adjustable compression, remote reservoirs, teflon coated sinter bushes or the revolutionary bladder rebound technology, ride height adjusters, hydraulic spring tension preloaders and hard chromed shafts. Most of the Y.S.S. mono shocks come with a piggyback reservoir made from a solid piece of machined aluminium with adjustment screws for low-speed and high-speed while others are available with casted mounts for reservoirs, without reservoirs, reservoirs with hoses, billet-milled reservoirs or billet-milled 90 degree reservoirs. Able to handle custom setups and offered in a variety of styles with many options, they are available for any bike you can think of.
Y.S.S. AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD. is located in Adelaide, South Australia, and was established by Walter Preisig. Walter has been developing racing suspension for over 25 years, and his company uses only quality materials and the latest wizardry in suspension technology to manufacture world class gas shock absorbers. They have a wise philosophy too: "It's unwise paying too much, but worse paying too little. By paying too much, you loose a little money. By paying too little, you could lose everything, because what you've bought was incapable of doing what it was bought for. The law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it's well to add a bit for the risk you run and if you do that, you have enough money to pay for something better."
Can’t quite touch the ground? It is possible to lower a motorcycle slightly, so that at a stop a shorter rider can comfortably reach the ground with both feet. We are not referring to turning your bike into an unridable toy; we're referring to riders who still want to experience the cornering fun that a current motorcycle can provide. While there are some disadvantages to lowering the suspension, it does give shorter riders the opportunity to ride motorcycles that are ordinarily out of their reach. On a typical sports bike we can lower front and rear by a maxium of 35mm while still retaining good bump absorbsion and roadholding. Most MX and off road bikes can be lowered up to 60mm, while in some extreme cases we go up to 100mm. Call us for a quote.
Our licensed workshop is equipped to carry out any suspension servicing and modifications. Our fully trained and qualified technicians will look after your suspension as if it’s their own. We can rebuild sealed unit shock absorbers usually for a fraction of the cost of replacement, our in house machining centre makes light work of custom parts for special jobs. We also have an engine and general service department, so while your motorcycle is here for suspension work we can carry out service work such as brake pads, valve adjustments and top end rebuilds.
See some more of our facilities HERE.
Teknik Fork and Shock Springs are proven winners, and are tougher, more durable, more reliable & more responsive than standard fork or shock springs. Our springs can cope with anything your bike can dish out, which we back with our Lifetime Warranty. Not only that, but we carry Australia's largest range of both fork and shock springs, so we definately have an affordable spring waiting for your bike.
Find the right spring for you and your bike
See our range of Fork Springs
See our range of Shock Springs
If you want to work on your own suspension, or are looking for a complete catalogue (at affordable prices) to supply your workshop, Teknik offers everything you need to build a complete set of forks or shocks. We have a huge range of bushes, seals, wipers, bladders, caps, bump stops, pistons, seal heads, spring seats, and of course springs, valves, washers, shims, and anything else you can think of too.
Find out which parts fit your bike
See our range of Fork Parts
See our range of Shock Parts
We started out trying to change the specification of the standard internals (re-valving) many years ago, but you get a limited result if the original piston and valve design is a compromised design for reasons of cost and mass production. So a few years ago we started to look at other designs from some of the factory Forks and Shocks we see, and the "no compromise" approach, and began designing parts for stock suspension that overcame the cheap designs and quality control problems. We are able to use different internal parts for different applications and rider types, and that’s where we have been able to make huge impacts on a rider's feel, confidence and speed. We do all the CAD design in house and use our sponsored riders to test the products. Then we test the products on our shock dyno and make sure we are getting the right results. A lot of our customers complain about the harsh feeling they get from stock forks and the resulting arm pump. That is one of the main areas the kits address. We are always looking to lessen rider fatigue and increase mechanical grip.
Find out which kits fit your bike
Check out our Fork T-Valves
Check out our Shock T-Valves
