SV with Ohlins- worthwhile?

[davebullet]

And it wont ( if you purchase from the US parasites ) have all the internal valving, bleed jet, compression body and end eye upgrades that I eluded to in a previous post on this thread. So that is suitable for our conditions..Those that are blinded by the cheapest possible purchase price often end up shortchanging themselves.
I support NZ business and employ New Zealanders.

Price was quoted to give an indication to those interested what an Ohlins shock costs for an SV650.

Can you post your price here please?

[Robert Taylor]

Price was quoted to give an indication to those interested what an Ohlins shock costs for an SV650.

Can you post your price here please?

NZ$1899.90 GST INCLUSIVE. Note that this is inclusive of fitting a compression adjuster body with a smaller bleed hole and changing its valving stack, fitting a poppett one way shaft jet, completely changing the valving stacks on the main piston, changing the rubberised end eye bearing to a self aligning bearing with side distance spacers and changing the main spring ( which incidentally is too light for all but the shortest and lightest riders )
If you buy out of the States the only thing that they will change is the spring and for most scenarios that is frankly not enough, especially if the bike will also be used for trackdays. For racing all the mods above are an absolute neccessity.
There is nothing wrong with the Ohlins shock as such but when I spoke to Ohlins about this their test rider Anders Andersson replied ''you race those things???!!!, its only a f...ing commuter bike''
While I havent crunched the numbers thoroughly the mods detailed above would run out at around $700, maybe a little more, if an unmodified SU606 shock was sent to us as a retail job to modify. And this one ''hurts'' us a little as the springs we remove are such an orphan we havent found homes for them, that is dead money on the shelves.
Please dont doubt us on this as we have developed and tested this all very thoroughly. If someone says they can do it cheaper they are cutting corners and it wont work properly.
Local puchase equals local pre setup and local backup. If for example you dont like the selected spring ( everyone has a different perception of feel etc ) we exchange at no further cost.