Ohlins, White Power or other?

[DMNTD:Me]

It's time to upgrade the suspension on my ZX10 and this honky needs some educated advice please people.
Have heard good things about both Ohlins and White power...recommendations and reasons please.

BTW...only interested in full internals in the forks and not replacement forks...and yes,replacement rear shock.

Thanks

[bugjuice]

talk to someone like Shaun. He can do amazing things without even changing anything but settings.

Else he whipped off with my front and rear and used the best of what he had, in the stock forks and shock (so all the internals) and cost a fraction of fully done units, and the bike just grips like a monkey on speed. fukin orsum

[HenryDorsetCase]

I say Ohlins: here's why

you can buy from the local guy who you can ring up and talk to. He will build to your specs and is happy to swap stuff out if its not quite right. I think thats called customer service, and its good to support it where you find it. Plus Robert Taylor knows his stuff. Its expensive but not outlandishly priced. Budget shock is about $1200, the remote reservoir job with all the fruit is about $1600, and the difference it makes to a stock bike is phenomenal. I seriously couldnt get over how much of a difference it made to my Hornet.

And if it craps itself you can get bits from NZ usually.

I havent used WP so cant comment on that. Since I need a new shock for my NC30 track bike then maybe someone who has could comment about price/availability etc. I have a jar that used to be called "holiday" and is now called "motorbike fruit".

[ArcherWC]

OHLINS.. no one better than Robert Taylor in NZ (Shaun Harris is up there too from all accounts) and he is the resident Ohlins importer

[Maha]

OHLINS.. no one better than Robert Taylor in NZ (Shaun Harris is up there too from all accounts) and he is the resident Ohlins importer

Right on Archie....have emailed Robert Taylor and pm'ed Shaun with my concerns....and im going with Ohlins on the Triumphant. The local bike shop here looked into other brands but i would be only be saving a few hundred dollars over Ohlins, plus whoever they spoke to said go with Ohlins so its getting done next week, they are sending the fronts away down to the Naki and all should be good by the end of next week....

PS: OHLINS CHRIS!!!!!....listen to NEDWN.....

[bistard]

Yup,the same reasons as Mr Dorsetcase has mentioned,the local back up is fantastic,plus if its a race bike Robert/Shaun will help you at a race meeting
Or they are but a phone call away for advice
As Robert has been quoted "White Power Shocks,being Dutch,dont work above sea level"

[BarBender]

You know what I think Chris...Call Robert.

[Cajun]

I acutally know one of the guys who started WP supension he lives in the gorge in waihi.

Damn dutch man, hard bastard to get a drink out until he pissed, then he happy buy anyone a drink, until next morning he relises his wallet his empty.

But on another note would go ohlins as they seam to have the backup and support in nz, and in turn be able to move it to your 'next' bike alot simlar and easier with this backup and support

[Trudes]

Robert Taylor is awesome to deal with. He put an Ohlins shock in my Hornet purely to lower it for me, dropped the front forks also to balance it out and made damn sure I was happy with it and set up properly for me before I left. He also said if I have any problems or questions to get hold of him and he'd try to sort me out and that he'd do me a good deal if I wanted to sell it back to him when I sold the bike, now that's service! The shock has improved the handling heaps and I no longer have my spine trying to come up through the top of your head everytime I hit a bump.

[Colapop]

You should put a spring or some shit in there...

[Leong]

OHLINS.. no one better than Robert Taylor in NZ (Shaun Harris is up there too from all accounts) and he is the resident Ohlins importer

Robert Taylor is awesome to deal with.

I'd have to agree. Robert Taylor transformed my SV650S for me putting in an Ohlins shock and replacing the fork internals (harder springs damper rods and pop off valves and ohlins oil). He was awesome to deal with. We emailed quite a while before so he knew exactly what I wanted to fix and did it all as and when he said he would.

With my GSXR I went to Shaun and swapped my standard forks for a pair of modded ones. These have "Northwest Suspension" stickers on them which is Robert Taylor's trading name so I suspect they were built by Robert. Again big difference - especially as I was thinking that the standard suspension was pretty good on the way there from Taupo.

While I'm definitely no expert on bike suspension it would seem by reputation that these guys are good. But I know good service when I see it, and both these guys are great to deal with. Often the people who you deal with are as important or more important than the product itself and I think this is especially so with setting up your suspension - so I vote for Robert/Shaun and Ohlins!!

[onearmedbandit]

I say Ohlins, based on the difference my shock from Robert Taylor made to my bike. No doubt the same can be done with WP, but in my instance I have been more than impressed with the difference it made. Just picked up some Ohlins springs for my bike in Japan for $115, can"t wait to get that set up.

[Sensei]

I have the real deal full Ohlins forks, Shock & steering damper . Have ridden a bike with ohlins internals etc & was Mint not to my setting but the owner has his style of riding over the front of the bike so sets it up to suit but that is a personal thing .The owner had set up his ohlins gear over along time with continued input with R Taylor , with a end result putting together a full road set up that Robert would use for future set ups of this type of system of fork kits & it was near Perfect ! & no it wasn't who ya think . Internal gear is excellent don't get me wrong but is only as good as the Machining of its components Eg { Jap forks } as Robert told me when talking to him over a coffee once & thats where the difference lies from complete units over kits . White Power has been round for years as other stuff like Traxion Dynamics gear etc , so if you pay the money for good stuff you want be disapointed as long as ya get someone with good knowlege to set it up for what you intend to use it on be it Road / track as there is a huge difference between the two . Enjoy

[jimbo]

Hi Chris You Know what i reckon dont ya. Ohlins .Just to confuse you tho ...what did you think of the WP suspension on the Superduke

[DMNTD:Me]

Cheers for your opinion y'all....as I first thought Ohlins will be the way to go.
Phoned Robert Taylor and had a bloody good convo about my options...at the moment I'll prolly be going with the Level 2 front forks setup and the shiz shock to handle my voluptuous self