09-06-16, 11:05 AM
So I'm going to recommend avoiding ABE (All Bike Engineering) like the plague, unless maybe you have a custom bike that you can't find stanchions from elsewhere. (Read other reviews online)
The stanchions are essentially just tubes with threads tapped onto them. There is no shuttle inside them for the dampening rod to fit into, SO.. you have to use an angle grinder to grind the crimped edge off the stock stanchions, which is like 2mm thick, without damaging the shuttles, which isn't easy and if you damage them you're going to have to buy another paid of stanchions. To hold the shuttles in the new ones, you've either got to use a circlip which makes the shuttle rattle around a bit, or crimp the edge of the stanchions over.
Myself and the technician at the dealership I work at were both questioning whether it's even chromed, the metal is pretty dull, not as smooth as the 13 year old OEM ones.
I'll post some pictures later. If anyone is considering them, I would stay away and buy some stanchions elsewhere, just ask whether the shuttle is provided and welded in, or if you have to engineer yours into there.
The stanchions are essentially just tubes with threads tapped onto them. There is no shuttle inside them for the dampening rod to fit into, SO.. you have to use an angle grinder to grind the crimped edge off the stock stanchions, which is like 2mm thick, without damaging the shuttles, which isn't easy and if you damage them you're going to have to buy another paid of stanchions. To hold the shuttles in the new ones, you've either got to use a circlip which makes the shuttle rattle around a bit, or crimp the edge of the stanchions over.
Myself and the technician at the dealership I work at were both questioning whether it's even chromed, the metal is pretty dull, not as smooth as the 13 year old OEM ones.
I'll post some pictures later. If anyone is considering them, I would stay away and buy some stanchions elsewhere, just ask whether the shuttle is provided and welded in, or if you have to engineer yours into there.