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NITRON’S SHOCKINGLY GOOD
V-TWIN SUSPENSION STORY
Founded in 1998 by former SPAX automotive and WP Suspension man Guy Evans,
Nitron Racing Systems is a high-end UK based suspension manufacturer with a
story to tell – and they are headed for AIMExpo in September to tell it!
Nitron Founder/CEO Guy Evans: “Our tooling and
assembly system enables us to do runs of 10 as
easily as runs of a few hundred. We have our own
R&D and prototyping CNC machines with production
parts made by specialist aerospace and automotive
sub-contractors with advanced CNC machines in
other parts of the UK.”
Sportster 12000X
itron started out making shock
absorbers for cars, but these days
their motorcycle product line
accounts for more than 35 percent
of sales, and Evans sees the motorcycle
aftermarket as where Nitron’s best
prospects for further growth lays.
“I’ve been a rider for a very long time, and although
I was initially hesitant about getting into the
motorcycle market, our sales have grown steadily
ever since we showed a limited run of our first
motorcycle designs.”
That limited run has now evolved into a large range
of high performance shocks – offered either in kit
form or made and built to the customer’s own
requirements, with applications for all sectors of the
motorcycle industry. “Our whole manufacturing
process is geared to modularity and customization,”
Evans says.
“Our tooling and assembly system enables us to do
runs of 10 as easily as runs of a few hundred. We
have our own R&D and prototyping CNC machines,
with production parts made by specialist aerospace
and automotive sub-contractors with advanced CNC
machines in other parts of the UK.”
Nitron specializes in gas monotubes, which “cool
better than twin tube systems with a second tube
inside because of the increased air contact,” says
Evans, “but they are trickier to make. Gas monotubes
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“manufacturing is
geared to modularity
and customization”
PARTS AND ACCESSORIES
are filled with oil and have a pressurized gas cell
separated by a second finely machined piston.”
They are made from aerospace grade aluminum
alloys and use stainless steel components, which
reduces mass and inertia whilst improving cooling,
and after CNC billet machining, they are hard and
titanium anodized for protection against corrosion.
Because Nitron’s motorcycle shocks are all hand-
built to order and made to exacting tolerances from
high specification components to exacting
tolerances, Evans says the result is a lightweight
shock with excellent anti-fade properties that will
last a long time, Teflon-lined bearings and bushes to
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