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Ever since starting out in 1976, the focus for Ohlins Racing AB has been on becoming the obvious choice for those who want shock absorbers, forks, and steering dampers that go beyond the run-of-the-mill shocks, forks, and steering dampers, and that surpass the highest of standards.

Everyone realizes that different shock absorbers, forks, and steering dampers are needed for motocross, touring, racing, and touring. However, at Ohlins Racing AB goes much further than that. Ohlins has developed specially designed shocks, forks, and steering dampers for enduro, supermotard, dual sport, cruiser, sport, hypersport and racing as well. Every shock absorber, fork, and steering damper is a technically advanced product with respect to performance, precision, quality, endurance, safety and reliability. This is one of the key factors that lie behind all of the successes that Ohlins shock absorbers, forks, and steering dampers are constantly achieving on the race tracks.

Another key factor is Ohlins continuous development process. Ohlins currently has a long list of patented solutions for technical applications and improved functions. Solutions that will benefit you, regardless of whether you ride a motocross, street, race, or a touring motorcycle. Ohlins strong cooperation's with elite racing teams in the MotoGP and WSB gives Ohlins tremendous opportunities to test new technology that sooner or later will end up in the aftermarket product assortment. High-end racing is not an isolated business area that is separated from Ohlins' aftermarket program - racing is just the ultimate challenge to ensure that products are good enough for all of Ohlins private customers around the world.

It is therefore no coincidence that more and more "ordinary" motorcyclists who think only the best is good enough are discovering that Ohlins shocks, forks, and steering dampers keep the same high standard for their motorcycles as they do for the world's elite.

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Ohlins for Racing

Ohlins Shocks, Forks, Steering Dampers for Racing

Ever since 1976, when the company was founded, racing has been an important part of the Ohlins Racing corporate philosophy. Almost all new technologies and patents are born on the race track together with some of the most prestigious racing teams in the world.

Together with Ohlins customers, Ohlins develops and tests the entire suspension concept for road racing. This means that Ohlins thinks holistically about the motorcycles design, chassis and other features should function together with the suspension and the rider's riding style. This results in the whole being greater than anything the individual parts could offer separately.

Ohlins has a special racing department with more than 30 employees that are devoted to deliver first class suspension and racing support 365 days a year to Ohlins' paying customers. The most prestigious racing teams actually have exclusive, dedicated service technicians from Ohlins that travels along during the entire season to guarantee optimal performance and function on every single race and test.

Racing involves comprehensive testing operations. Everything must be at its best in order to be able to keep up with the competition in racing: planning, technical know-how, rider capacity, the track, the tires, the motorcycle, and the suspension. This is why in principle all of Ohlins development and competition operations are based on testing. Ohlins firmly believes that it is only testing that enables them to see how a shock really works under different conditions.

Ohlins typically bases its work on a certain motorcycle model for which they specially build the shocks, forks, and steering dampers. Using computers they then make a basic setting in the laboratory. However, even though the laboratory tests give a good picture of how the shocks should be adjusted, they are nonetheless simply a basic model to work on. The final adjustments have to be made under real conditions on the track. And if it is to be done properly, it takes time. Ohlins spends around 20 track days per year with their largest customers.

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Ohlins for Dual Sport

Ohlins Shocks, Forks, Steering Dampers for Dual Sport

A Dual Sport bike should function on both dirt roads and asphalt roads, for both off-road riding that's a bit rougher, and comfortable cruising along roads. Ohlins has therefore developed shock absorbers, forks, and steering dampers that satisfy these apparently conflicting demands.

In other words, two different needs but only one shock absorber or fork.

Like all shocks, forks, and steering dampers from Ohlins, those developed for Dual Sport are based on advanced technology, special materials and careful testing. Dual Sport shocks are based technically on motorcross and enduro with all that is involved in terms of handling extreme pressures over a long period. However, they differ from them primarily in that they are tested and optimally adjusted so that they also have great comfort and safety when riding on asphalt. By improving the performance of these shocks, they are therefore able to handle forest trails, dirt roads and surfaced public highways.

The shocks and forks for Dual Sport are tailor-made per model. For instance, besides functioning on "raw" surfaces with respect to bottoming resistance, they also provide excellent comfort, stability and balance, both off-road and on surfaced roads.

Due to the fact that Dual Sport has to deal with such widely varying areas of use, Ohlins has naturally fitted the shocks and forks for these motorcycles with a very broad range of adjustments.

You are consequently able to do some off-road outlaw riding in the morning, and saddle up your bags and hit the highway in the afternoon, using the same shocks with their excellent qualities and durability the whole time.

Ohlins for Motocross and Enduro

Ohlins Shocks, Forks, Steering Dampers for Motocross and Enduro

It is on the motocross tracks and the enduro trails that shock absorbers, forks, and steering dampers have to seriously show what they can handle. Extremely rough treatment, jumps, rocks and mud are just some of the things they have to deal with. Over and over again.

Ohlins has been making shocks in this segment for over 30 years and many championship titles have been won on our suspension throughout the years. This is where the demands are greatest and where the development is taking place fastest.

However, Ohlins makes motocross and enduro shocks, forks, and steering dampers for the entire spectrum of riders, from world champions to talented amateurs.

Everyone wants to have a shock absorber, fork, or steering damper that enhances their bike and spurs them on to greater performance. With the improved traction and stability that the Ohlins shock absorber, forks, and steering dampers offer, the ride becomes both safer and more secure. With an Ohlins shock absorber, fork, or steering damper, lap-times are forced down somewhat, speed out of the bends corners is increased slightly and safety margins are raised.

To be in a position to manufacture its products for riders who are part of the world elite, Ohlins tests them with the aim of satisfying the needs and standards set by excellent and reasonably good riders. In this way Ohlins can start with a normal rider with high standards and develop shocks that are exactly suited to the riders' expectations.

Ohlins sets about things thoroughly. Every season they test all new motorcycles on carefully chosen tracks, motocross with motocross riders, enduro with enduro riders. All of the riders are experienced and have the feel needed to achieve the right results.

Ohlins starts by testing the bikes with the original shocks or forks. Then they test Ohlins shocks and forks on every motorcycle model and make the adjustments best suited to each particular bike.

An Ohlins shock absorber, fork, or steering damper improves the motorcycle's performance. This applies to everything from comfort and traction to stability and bottoming resistance. Everyone who tries the standard shocks first and then Ohlins shocks, immediately feels the substantial difference.

But however good Ohlins is at designing customized shocks and forks, they naturally still attend to individual preference; After all, all riders have their own style and their own requirements. Ohlins shocks, forks, and steering dampers can consequently be adjusted externally so that a shock absorber can easily be created on the track that is perfect for current requirements.

Ohlins for Supermotard

Ohlins Shocks, Forks, Steering Dampers for Supermotard

When Ohlins fit a Supermotard with shocks or forks, they take the best from motorcross and enduro - in other words, those branches of motorcycling that require the best shocks and forks. So you can be sure that you are getting a shock that can handle the demands that you place on both your motorcycle and your shocks and forks.

Ohlins shocks and forks are primarily suited to outright competition machines. They are tested by professional riders and developed by engineers who are very enthusiastic about combining cutting-edge technology in terms of design and materials, with the highest possible performance. Ohlins consequently knows, through experience, that they also fulfill the demands you might have as an owner of a Supermotard.

At Ohlins Service Centre you will find in-depth knowledge about all motorcycle models and which shocks work best with them. This knowledge is combined with your particular wishes so that the shocks are modified to achieve maximum performance with regard to traction and stability for both safer and more secure riding.

All Ohlins shocks and forks are made from materials that tolerate rough conditions. They therefore have a longer performance lifetime than any other shock absorber or fork. But is goes without saying that Ohlins shocks and forks for Supermotard are built so that they can be renovated and upgraded.

So, with a properly serviced Ohlins, you have a shock absorber or fork that always delivers the performance of a new shock or fork, which you will probably move over to your new motorcycle. And the next.

Ohlins for Hypersport

Ohlins Shocks, Forks, Steering Dampers for Hypersport

When Ohlins manufactures shocks, forks, and steering dampers for hypersport motorcycles, there are primarily three factors they work with:

Performance, Performance and finally Performance.

Hypersport bikes are extreme machines that require extreme shock absorbers, forks, and steering dampers. These motorcycles are manufactured so that they can be ridden both in normal traffic and on the track. But it is track riding that sets the standard.

Ohlins has cutting-edge technology that leaves no room for compromises. Using many years of high-end racing experience as a foundation, Ohlins develop these shocks, forks, and steering dampers a stage further every year. There is always something to be improved in each component, every detail and all types of material.

It goes without saying that Ohlins bases the design of each shock, fork, and steering damper on the individual motorcycle model for which it is developed. But the feel is something they get from the race track. Ohlins tests almost 100% of their shocks, forks, and steering dampers on the race track. They are also involved with leading racing teams where our technicians are faced with problems they have to solve under tough racing conditions. Solutions that later end up in your shock.

Ohlins shocks, forks, and steering dampers for hypersport are at an extremely high technological and functional level where Ohlins has included everything they can think of that you might benefit from. This involves, among other things, every imaginable option for external adjustment.

This is why you can find exactly the right settings to make you and your motorcycle a winner.

Ohlins for Sport

Ohlins Shocks, Forks, Steering Dampers for Sport

For motorcycles within the sport sector, the shock absorbers, forks, and steering dampers must have very good track qualities, function well in ordinary traffic and have a high level of comfort. Shocks, forks, and steering dampers from Ohlins handle all these criteria better than any other, and much better than standard suspension.

When Ohlins designs shocks, forks, and steering dampers for sport bikes, they imagine what the motorcycle's manufacturer intended when it comes to performance, options, comfort and so on. They evaluate each motorcycle model individually, down to the smallest detail. Then Ohlins' professional riders, often professional riders, carry out tests, both on a track and on public roads. In addition, they test each bike with various tires as Ohlins knows that tires also play a decisive role in achieving the desired quality.

From there Ohlins designs shocks, forks, and steering dampers that meet, and even surpass, the qualities that the manufacturers have been striving for. In carrying out this task, Ohlins borrows a number of technical solutions and ideas from the hypersport sector, however, modified for more everyday riding for comfort.

Ohlins for Touring

Ohlins Shocks, Forks, Steering Dampers for Touring

A touring shock, fork, or steering damper from Ohlins just goes on and on, and on.

One of the points to consider with regard to a good suspension is, after all, that it should be reliable. If it is cared for properly your Ohlins shock, fork, and steering damper will last just as long as your motorcycle, even if you ride a great deal, and then some more…

A good touring shock, fork, or steering damper should be able to combine several things: it should be of very high quality and extremely durable, and it goes without saying that it should provide a pleasant and comfortable ride over many miles.

But Ohlins is not content to stop there.

Ohlins touring shocks. forks, and steering dampers also deal with top speed performance and therefore also tolerate more advanced riding. And even if you ride with a load and have a passenger, you can enjoy great comfort, high-speed stability, safe handling in corners, and everything else you are entitled to expect from an Ohlins Shock absorber, fork, and steering damper.

To further increase the flexibility of the touring shocks they can easily be adjusted for a variety of load conditions.

Combining all these elements in one shock absorber, fork, or steering damper is a technical achievement. When Ohlins is designing these products, they draw on all of the experience they have accumulated. This is combined with a process that is based on each individual touring bike that comes out on the market. Using exact measurements of the bike, comprehensive test-riding by professional riders, on both even and uneven roads, Ohlins develops the best shock absorbers, forks, and steering dampers available.

But of course you don't need to think about all of this when you are out riding. Mile after mile.

Regardless of whether you are weaving along a winding country road or riding at top speed along a straight motorway, all you need to do is enjoy the ride, the comfort, the wind and the speed.

Ohlins for ATV

Ohlins Shocks, Forks, Steering Dampers for ATV

The next generation of aftermarket products are all born out on the racetrack, developed by devoted engineers, passionate riders and professional teams that patiently find the optimal materials, the best possible settings and ride technique. Racing has never been a business area of its own, it is a crucial part of a new products life.

At Ohlins the racing products are a crucial part of the birth of a new aftermarket product. Often the first step towards a new product is to test it in the toughest conditions possible to secure the performance before a product is launched. That is why our commitment to racing is such an important part of our heritage.

Within the ATV segment Ohlins collaborates with some of the most talented riders out there such as Pat Brown in the American WSPA series and Bill Ballance in the GNCC.

Together with these riders Ohlins collects vital information about settings and overall functionality to improve their aftermarket program.

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