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Artein Gaskets: The Spanish gaskets, seals and air cleaner specialist is
entering the off-road/MX market with its X-Radical 'Super Gaskets' range of
advanced compounds for extreme applications. Founded in 1958, Artein is
based at Girona in north eastern Spain and a major European gasket
manufacturer, noted for its advanced technology, precision manufacturing
and performance materials research and development;
www.arteingaskets.com
Ferodo: One of the most famous brand names in the motorcycle brakes
industry, the company is celebrating another year of race success and a busy
year off the track too with more than 500 new and updated brake pad
applications. Ferodo says its brand objective is to deliver a "Balanced
Braking Performance" – a four-stage concept that calibrates the initial bite,
the resulting deceleration, the modulation (feel and control) that the rider
has going into a corner under braking, and the point at which the brake can
be released after the apex of a corner; www.ferodoracing.com
Galfer: Recent new products from the Barcelona area manufacturer include
race-developed 280 mm MX front brake kits to meet the current trend of
increasing front disc sizes on off-roaders. Available for all the main off-road
motorcycle brands, Galfer says the new kit delivers "substantially improved
braking performance, especially under extreme weather conditions or at
higher speeds. So much so that the 280 mm oversized discs have been used
in the last two seasons of the AMA Supercross Championship with great
results - former Spanish motocross rider Javi García Vico used it recently on
his Honda CRF 450"; www.galfer.eu
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LeoVince: The Italian exhaust brand has been celebrating its 65th anniversary
this year - "innovative research has always been at the heart of everything
that LeoVince stands for. We started on the street, but soon ended up on the
racetrack, looking for innovative materials and construction techniques. The
art of manufacturing exhaust systems for champions seeking maximum
performance has always been our school - bringing those same exhausts to
the road for today's bikers". Recent product additions include an LV One
Black Edition for Yamaha models and Sic58 Squadra Corse Limited Edition LV-
10 Titanium exhaust as a fund raiser for the Marco Simoncelli Foundation;
www.leovince.com
Andreani Group: As part of its comprehensive suspension workshop tools
range, Andreani recently introduced a labour-saving universal fork tube
removal kit and universal suspension fluid injector for easy maintenance of
oil levels in each fork. The procedure is simple, fast and accurate - set the
desired oil level through the integrated graduated shaft, insert the empty
injector into the outer tube, making sure it is centred, push the cylinder
down to suck the fork oil and then take the injector out to throw the oil
away; www.andreanigroup.com
Putoline: The popular Dutch blended motorcycle oil brand scored big in 2019
with its new N-Tech additive technology for a new "superior quality" API
group 5 fully synthetic base oil that Putoline is using. The company says that
ten years ago it was the first to introduce Nanotechnology into its
motorcycle lubricants and that the brand is now moving forward again with
N-Tech - "the next step in additive technology for motorcycles and the
worthy successor to the Nano-Tech range". The top of the new Putoline
range is the N-Tech PRO R +, which is available in various viscosities in both
Road and Off-Road versions, and is said to be suitable for most "conceivable
and diverse conditions from year-round use to extreme competition";
www.putoline.com
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