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Touratech 'Competition
Line' sportsbike
suspension kits
The new 'Competition Line'
suspension range from Touratech is
designed to "provide ambitious
amateur racers with the equipment
they need for fast lap times".
The company says that their ready-tofit complete kits for forks and shock
absorbers bring road-going superbike
suspension systems "up to a winning
standard", and that in the future the
aim is for the range to offer options for
all the major supersports models.
"Our Competition Line is designed to
appeal to ambitious racers who want
the perfect suspension so they can
squeeze every last drop of
performance out of their bike", says

Lars Würdemann, Head of Suspension
at Touratech.
Kits for the BMW S 1000 RR and
Suzuki GSX-R 1000 are already at an
advanced stage of development. For
the BMW, there will be both a
mechanically adjustable variant and
an electronic version of the suspension
kit for bikes with factory-fitted DDS.

"Ever since our revolutionarily simple
solution with 'Plug & Travel'
components for BMW's ESA and DDA
models in the Adventure segment, it
has been a standard feature of
Touratech Suspension products that
customers do not need to make any
improvised modifications – all the
original plug connectors are retained
and used", Würdemann says.
Having successfully tested
components on a Suzuki GSX-R 1000
at the Sachsenring racing circuit,
Touratech Suspension has taken an
important step towards expanding the
range of 'Competition Line'
suspension kits to include Japanese
superbikes. "Our fork cartridges work
on the 'closed cartridge' principle,
delivering a massive improvement in
performance, especially on the
Japanese super sportsbikes with their
big-piston forks.
"You simply swap out the original
standard fork internals and fit the
cartridges. Because their internal
friction is substantially lower, the
handling feels more precise. In
addition, three parameters – spring
preload, compression and rebound
damping (each on one side of the fork)
– have a far wider range of adjustment
than the factory product. The damping
performance remains constant over a
much longer period of time".

TOURATECH AG
Niedereschach, GERMANY
Tel. [phone]
[e-mail]
www.touratech.com

Touratech's Jo Glaser, suspension Product Manager, left, with Tom
Glazemakers of Tractive Suspnsion, development partners f