RE: Ohlins Rebuild

["Davis Eichelberger" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, the money works out a lot less than you think.  Stock shocks are shot
after say 30 to 40k, so you could spend $750 on replacement stockers every 30k
or $1300 on good aftermarket shocks and then only spend $200 on rebuilds every
30k.  Is it worth it?  Only you can answer that question.  Are they
significantly better than stock, definitely!

   
Davis Eichelberger
'96 R1100RT
SW Virginia

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-oilheads@xxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-oilheads@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tandy Bozeman
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 10:44 AM
> To: oilheads@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Ohlins Rebuild
> 
> 
> Tom,
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up about PPS.
> 
> 
> 
> This thread about Ohlin rebuilds begs the more fundamental 
> question of does the replacement of BMW stock shocks with 
> Ohlins change/improve the ride of the bike enough to warrant 
> the outlay of what-- $1300+ for a front and rear? That's a 
> lot of motel rooms, beer, whatever.
> 
> 
> 
> I've never had the opportunity to ride someone's RT or RS 
> with Ohlins installed so I remain one of the riders curious, 
> but, lacking personal hands-on experience,  reluctant  to 
> mail out a big check and see what comes on the UPS truck.
> 
> 
> 
> I see comments on the list that Ohlins improved someone's 
> ride, but I harbor the dark thought that someone who has just 
> spent $1000+ for a piece of motorcycle equipment might be 
> reluctant to admit that it produces little significant change 
> in the operation of the motorcycle. Then too I wonder if the 
> Ohlin riders out there comprise a small group of hard core 
> gadget nuts.
> 
> 
> 
> Then there is the problem of from whom to make the purchase.  
> And so on.
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> 
> Tandy
> 
> 
> 
> 96 R1100RT
> 
> 95 R1100RS
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Brown" <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "BMW Oilhead List" <oilheads@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 5:11 AM
> Subject: Ohlins Rebuild
> 
> 
> > Tandy:
> >
> > I can't for the life of me figure out why PPS gets the 
> recommendation
> > everytime someone asks.   I had a miserable experience with 
> them and know
> > several others who have too.  Although Stig does work for the real 
> > racers and knows a lot about racing and shocks, this is a family 
> > business and
> they
> > don't take very good care of their more pedestrian clients 
> very well.   I
> > never got to talk to Stig.  He never touched my shocks.  My 
> order was 
> > lost for 3 months.  I had to call long distance and ask after my 
> > shocks or
> they'd
> > still have them today (this was 2 years ago.  A nice lady explained 
> > that some guy they hired must have lost my order and that 
> I'd get them 
> > in a
> week.
> > Three weeks later they arrived packed in styro-foam peanuts without 
> > the original Ohlins box that I'd sent them in.  I called about that 
> > and they mailed the empty box seperately.  When I put the shocks on 
> > the bike, they were worse than before the rebuild.
> >
> > The lister who recommended PPS simply bought a pair of shocks from 
> > them
> and
> > has never got a rebuild from them.   I won't be going back 
> there ever.
> >
> > This time I went to SHY racing in Murfreesboro, TN.  They 
> do a lot of
> Ohlins
> > and Penske work for dirt bikes and ATVs.   The guy, Jerry Link, is a
> > soft-spoken great guy.   For around $300, he not only 
> rebuild my shocks,
> but
> > converted them to R1150 RT shocks.   This involves some 
> extensive changes
> > and he did a great job for me.
> >
> > -TB

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