Brad The Bike Boy: Fixing Showa non SBK forks with K-Tech valves

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Fixing Showa non SBK forks with K-Tech valves

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The link below takes you to a thread on the Monster Forum about fixing the non SBK Showa 41 and 43mm adjustable forks as fitted to all Ducati except the 916 onward SBK and 1000SS. This article is written by Torbjorn, who I mentioned some time ago in the 1000SS fork post, and is very comprehensive. Basically it's fitting a K-Tech valving kit to make them the same style internally as an SBK fork with the long rebound damping adjuster or an Ohlins. Well worth doing.

http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=55303.0
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