Ricor Itiminators Fork Emulators.

the website is telling me the only shipping option is ups @ $121 ! whats that all about?

Originally Posted by noob-saibot

the website is telling me the only shipping option is ups @ $121 ! whats that all about?

Hi

When you add items to the shopping cart, under the shipping rates area the second box down reads "PLEASE SELECT" if you click there there is the option for USPS priority Mail international. hope this helps

Cheers Dave

Originally Posted by df1uk

Hi

When you add items to the shopping cart, under the shipping rates area the second box down reads "PLEASE SELECT" if you click there there is the option for USPS priority Mail international. hope this helps

Cheers Dave

thanks

[jambo]

I read this thread with intrest, as I'm looking at Racetech emulators at present.

I have a few points that strike me as worth bringing up:

1) As the rebound oil pathways are seemingly unaffected by this (as with the RT emulators) running a 5 weight oil Vs the 10, 15 or 20w common with the RT system will have a large impact on the rebound damping of the forks, which return quite fast with the standard 10w. Seemingly then this system expects to reduce the fork's rebound damping effect by some considerable margin.

2) As the damper rod's compression holes are not drilled out further than standard, the Itimators act as additional in-line compression resistance. This caps out the maximum viscocity of oil you can use quite low as I find 15w too harsh for standard without any additional in-line resistance from the Itiminators. This again limits your scope for rebound damping.

3) I've never been much for marketing, and suggesting they know if the wheel or chasis moves irks me a little as what they're talking about is seperation of high and low speed compression damping. This is the major benefit of RT emulators, presumably these new Itiminators and, ideally a nice set of cartridge forks. That's not to say they don't do a very good job of this.


My intention is not to be critical of a product I haven't tried, seen or tested, but simply to raise some questions about it's operation.

Jambo

this is something that I can't figure out either. rebound is for me more important than compression, more so if you ride on track a lot. on street you can get away with many things not been set up that good. any way you go from stock is improvement.
if this things have shim stack for low speed which they say they do than you have to use thin oil. shim stack does not work with thick oil. so, if you want to keep compression damping in good range you can't fix rebound with thicker oil, you stuck there. may be also reason stock springs are recommended, stiffer springs would expose luck of rebound even more.
damper rod compression holes come in play only when you hit bump fast enough to stop oil from flowing through, hydraulic lock. any other case intiminator is doing job. it is probably restricted enough so you don't hydraulically lock damper rod.
they may be better than emulator for compression but they are limited for rebound. with emulators you have more options to tune different parts of forks.
just my opinion, I have not seen or tried this intiminators but input from track guy I have seen is what I did expect to see.