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Extremeion provides the coating for many of the factory teams including Factory Connection. If it’s good enough for Kevin Windham, it’s good enough for EDM. Since they prefer to have new tubes to work with, this was the perfect time to get it done. They can apply the DLC to tubes that have been ridden, they just have to be polished first. The DLC coating by Extremeion is a thin film deposited over the existing chrome on the fork tube/ shock shaft by Plasma Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition. Essentially the parts go into a vacuum chamber, gases are introduced and turned into plasma which condense into a solid on the part becoming the coating. It’s a lot more complicated than this but we’re not writing a book and it’s not the sort of thing you will be doing out in your garage. Extremeion performs this service for you. Some of the key benifits to the DLC coating are: it resist rock dings, chemical additives that corrode your suspension components, reduces friction that causes excessive stiction and increases life of your suspension components. Learn more by going to the Extremeion website. We dropped off our fork tubes and shock shaft and they were ready for us to pick up the following Tuesday. Once we had the tubes back from Extremeion it was time to start sorting out the modified shim stacks, made up of super thin washers, that go with the Race tech Gold Valves. When you purchase Gold Valves, Race Tech takes your weight, riding ability and the type of riding you do and calculates a shim stack for you to install. It takes all the brain stress out of the equation. Hardley any thinking required! When your Gold Valves arrive, the included paperwork contains an internet access code that you use to identify yourself on the Race Tech website. When you log in you are asked a series of questions about your bike, type of riding, and your "suspension feel" preference. When you click continue you are given a series of letters and numbers that coincide with a table-list that is included with the paper work in the Gold Valve fork kit. Here’s an example: cH6 which means, compression high speed, option #6. You have options 1-19 in the cH category. Do this for cL-low speed compression, restrictor valving and the gap shim stack and you have your completed shim stack for one fork leg. It really is an amazing system with diagrams that make understanding the process of building a shim stack so much easier than on e would imagine. The table also shows you where to go, if after testing you want to make the suspension component stiffer or softer. ...........................................Continued |