Öhlins has a brand new tremendous restricted version vary of race-day Öhlins Manufacturing unit Racing suspension upgrades to make you go quicker. From easy manufacturing facility workforce yellow for lowers to World Cup optimized crowns on your DH fork, the brand new consumer-focused Öhlins Manufacturing unit Racing undertaking brings you nearer to the sensation of knowledgeable mountain bike racer…
UPDATE: Öhlins has up to date us with Manufacturing unit Racing pricing. Scroll right down to see how a lot a pro-MTB makeover will value you!
Öhlins Manufacturing unit Racing professional suspension upgrades for you
By including a brand new restricted version Öhlins Manufacturing unit Racing class to their shopper product vary, the Swedish suspension consultants at Öhlins hope to carry you one step nearer to their racing heritage. The OFR line-up is equal elements a real efficiency increase and easily making you look quick – ‘look professional, go gradual‘ – however eye-catching in both regard. Öhlins says it’s the identical equipment raced by their prime professional mountain bikers – like Loïc Bruni, Finn Iles, Fabio Wibmer, and the BMC XC Workforce – however accessible to us mortals solely whereas provides final.
We‘re nonetheless ready to listen to again about now have official retail pricing, and can replace right here after we know extra. Within the meantime, examine along with your native Öhlins supplier for availability.
First up is a few precise next-level gravity efficiency…
DH38 Manufacturing unit Racing Crown
Developed within the R&D lab, after which real-world examined on the UCI World Cup DH observe, this new extra extensively-machined aluminum racing crown seems to save lots of weight with relieved clamps and upgraded titanium {hardware} on the stanchions, upgrading the journey really feel of current DH38 forks. Öhlins describes it as enhancing the downhill racing fork’s “flex sample, giving riders the improved management and stability required at DH World Cup ranges.”
The titanium-anodized crown continues to be mated to a direct mount stem, and accessible with dropped or flat higher clamps. For now, it’s provided completely in a 54mm fork offset, the identical as raced on the World Cup by Bruni & Iles these previous two seasons.
The brand new Öhlins Manufacturing unit Racing DH38 Crown retails for 485€.
Manufacturing unit Racing TTX22m.2 Improve
Much less seen as soon as you put in it, the restricted version Öhlins Manufacturing unit Racing TTX22m.2 improve is a brand new set of internals for your rear coil shock. Including a brand new hydraulic top-out perform, the TTX22m.2 Manufacturing unit Racing improve additionally in any other case simplifies the internals for optimum race tuning. With out the flexibility to clip in these three customary 2.5mm stroke adjusters, Öhlins says this Manufacturing unit-edition is healthier suited to deal with the extreme stresses of “excessive racing circumstances” whereas delivering optimum efficiency.
The Manufacturing unit Racing TTX22m.2 improve retains Öhlins’ signature twin tube crossed-design (TTX) damping tech, now with a titanium nitride (TiN) coating on its shaft for smoother actuation and added sturdiness. The Manufacturing unit Racing improve is available in 4 sizes – 225mm & 250mm general x 75mm stroke and 205mm & 230mm general x 65mm stroke.
The brand new Öhlins Manufacturing unit Racing TTX22m.2 Improve Package retails for 225€.
Manufacturing unit Racing Shock Pump
This one’s extra to make you’re feeling good organising your Öhlins suspension. Including to the restricted version racing product assortment, the Öhlins MTB shock pump was made so you may exactly dial-in air shock and fork pressures. It will get a digital stress gauge, starting from 0-300psi. If it seems acquainted to you, that’s most likely as a result of it’s. Not an Öhlins-specific product, however an Öhlins-branded model of a confirmed digital shock pump – I believe we’ve seen this precise one from each Fox & RockShox, too.
The brand new Öhlins Manufacturing unit Racing Digital Shock Pump retails for 89€.
Öhlins restricted version Manufacturing unit Yellow Fork Lowers
Lastly and possibly probably the most seen are the team-color Manufacturing unit Yellow Fork Lowers. Sure, they’re the very same lowers that you have already got in black, simply now in a restricted version Manufacturing unit Yellow paint. Now accessible for DH38, RXF38, and RXF34 forks, they gained’t make you quicker, however they are going to make you’re feeling quicker. As foolish as it might be to pay for a brand new set of yellow lowers when your current ones are functioning completely nicely, in case you harm the lowers and want to switch them, why not go for the Manufacturing unit Workforce look replace! Manufacturing unit Yellow lowers may even be coming to extra fork fashions quickly.
The brand new Öhlins Manufacturing unit Racing Yellow Fork Lowers every retail for 425€, per fork.
Curiously, it is a race-use-specific equipment, and meaning it isn’t included in the usual Öhlins guarantee. We’re certain it lives as much as the identical high quality requirements as the remainder of their premium suspension elements, however don’t count on an everyday alternative whenever you thrash it in a season of World Cup downhill quallies.
