K-Tech Suspension Ltd

General information

Based in the Midlands, K-Tech pride themselves in the quality and performance of all their products and are now looking to increase the availability nationwide to cope with growing demand, making it easier for customers to obtain the parts they need and to raise K-Tech's profile in the performance suspension marketplace.

K-Tech Suspension has been providing solutions for motorcycle suspension for over ten years, our company consists of three main departments listed below.

Parts Department 01283 559 000 Option 1
K-Tech can supply suspension service parts for most makes of original equipment motorcycle front forks and rear shock absorbers, all of the parts listed in our catalogue and on our website are supplied from stock and dispatched from our distribution centre in Leicestershire. Our parts department is open from 09.00 to 17.30 Monday to Friday with all orders being placed before 15.00 dispatched the same day with our contracted couriers.

Workshop 01283 559 000 Option 2
K-Tech technicians have over 40 years experience, working on all brands of suspension. We offer a full range of services from a routine front fork or shock absorber service through to a diagnostic investigation, these services are available for Road and Off Road customers and include supplying springs to suit rider weight and revalving. We have experience at all levels of competition from club level through to GP in road and off road disciplines. For road riding customers we offer the same high standard of services tailoring the original equipment suspension to your personel needs. All work is carried out in controlled conditions to a standard that has earned us a reputation second to none, we use either original equipment or top quality replacement parts and components which gives the customer peace of mind when having work carried out by us, our workshop is equipped with the latest technical equipment including vacuum filling rigs, two Roehrig Dynamometers’ capable of diagnostic reports on suspension units and a spring testers capable of testing and printing out spring force graphs. At K-Tech we believe that the word service carries a very broad meaning, listed below are the processes each component is checked for when being serviced in our workshop.

Fork Service
Complete strip of front fork including all internal parts.
Inspection of all parts for wear or damage.
Inspect and check inner and outer tubes for straightness.
Polish chrome tubes.
Strip piston assemblies, clean and flatten pistons.
Replace oil seals, inspect dust seals and bushes and replace if necessary.
Rebuild with Motul Factory Line fork oil.
Set up booklet with base settings and oil levels.

Shock Service
Complete strip of shock absorber.
Inspection of all parts for wear or damage.
Polish piston rod.
Strip piston assemblies, clean and flatten pistons.
Replace oil seals, inspect dust seals and bushes and replace if necessary.
Rebuild shock absorber using vacuum machine to fill with oil.
Charge with nitrogen
Set up booklet with base settings and oil levels.

Fork Revalve
Same as front fork service but includes shim change on pistons to K-Tech settings.

Shock Revalve
Same as shock service but includes shim changes to K-Tech settings.

Manufacturing 01283 559000 Option 3
K-Tech manufacture many suspension parts including two types of piston kits, two types of racing front fork cartridge internals for road bike forks and two types of complete replacement front forks suitable for racing applications, for 2011 we are also launching our new unique range of shock absorbers for road racing. All of our products are designed in house using the latest software with all parts being made locally by sub contracted ISO accredited machining companies using the highest specification machines, materials and processes. When the parts are received from the supplier they go through our own internal quality control process before being built into assemblies ready for sales all over the world. The manufacturing department employ’s four people with over 40 years experience in racing suspension and they are constantly evaluating new products to manufacture in total K-Tech employees have over 75 years combined experience of suspension at all levels of racing including World Superbike, World Super Sport, BSB Championships, AMA Championships, World MX, British MX, World Enduro, World Rally Championship and F3. Our technicians are constantly working with teams and riders in all of these disciplines to further develop our knowledge which is then offered to our customers.