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The performance of your suspension is critical to the ride experience you’ll get: handling, comfort and safety all depend on your shock absorbers and forks, but many riders don’t realise it.
Put simply, if you’ve never ridden a motorcycle with well-set-up quality suspension, you don’t know what you’re missing! Most riders start out on a cheap bike, with either new or (even worse) second-hand worn suspension. When they eventually get to ride a modern larger-capacity machine, they might find the suspension performance to be fantastic, but it’s generally still built to a price. Ride a bike with really goodquality suspension that has been set up for your weight and riding style and many riders never want to go back to a lesser machine.
The problem is that good suspension isn’t cheap. Only premium bikes have it and often even they fall short of the best available. That’s why the aftermarket suspension industry will always be with us, catering to riders willing to pay for the gain in comfort and handling it delivers.
Riders can spend between $1000 and $4000 to upgrade suspension on an expensive, high-powered bike. The trouble is, not everybody has that kind of budget or rides
