Has anyone used a a bitubo shock. What are they like? I know everyone goes for ohlins but on old trackbikes I found ohlins were slightly better than others but the window they worked in was much narrower. WP was brilliant for money and operating window but this was before ktm bought them. Never had bitubo on a bike so wondering what they are like?
Some racers use them. The critical thing that people say don’t say often enough is: whatever shock you have/plan to get, get it sprung for your weight. If you do that and the Comp/rebound adjustment is sufficient it will work for you. More expensive shocks have more adjustment than road going oem stuff. Usually.
Yes plan is to get one that sprung for me. The bitubo looks quite good. High and low speed compression, rebound,preload and ride height
Wavy Dave uses Bitubo (I believe he's also a rep for them), and he raced those shocks in the IOM-TT this year, at least the Ape 660. Don't know what he ran on the S1000RR.
Do they need sending to bitubo centres or should any suspension place be able to service thrm. You have me thinking now with them being Italian, will it take forever to get parts. The big selling point over ohlins/ktech is the high speed compression
There’s service centres here but very few, pcr performance used to use and sell them but stopped because of parts availability, as said they are very good quality though and how often do you need them serviced, it is a bonus with Ohlins or ktech that there’s plenty of parts and service centres around.
off the subject slightly, but it would be good if anyone has resprung, what spring rate did you fit, whats your weight inc kit, and was it better and why
Having correct spring rate will always be better mate just from what ive read and heard the std shock can get overworked and hot then you lose damping but not sure how true that is
