I'm just feeling very pleased with a set of shocks I've just built for this beastie. As standard it's not an easy machine to ride (drive?) but now it's a lot more fun... I just wanted to share these pics with you all.





And here are some closer pics of the dampers














These are going to a Can-Am dealer in London tomorrow.

They really do look the dogs-danglies Mike!

How's the venture going?

Thanks Scootz. I thought the bling trap would catch you..

It's going OK. Sales are just starting but customer feedback is great. Here's one for you: Pan Euro Forum

And at risk of attack by the 'I've got a life' brigade, here's my company Facebook page

I'll be calling with my credit card details ready once I've worked out what springs I need!

[Our monoshocks sell for the same all-in price of £350, for each and every model in the catalogue.]

Is that price of £350 for ONE shock, or a set of four?

As far as I can make out, your shocks are similar to the Protechs and other similar here, except yopu have 48 clicks.

Cheers,
Nev.

Thanks Nev. That is £350 each but then they are motorcycle monoshocks not kit car shocks.

If you saw the two shocks side by side you would soon see the differences...

Thanks for buying Canadain, enjoy the ride.

Nice Work, but you are leaving yourself wide open to armchair as***les cough cough sorry engineers, with such detailed pictures, you can just see the crush tube brigade rubbing their hands in glee !!!!!

I hope your business grows from strength to strength.

but with your obvious skill im sure it will.

Qwallitee! You da man.

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Originally posted by Hector.Brocklebank
Nice Work, but you are leaving yourself wide open to armchair as***les cough cough sorry engineers, with such detailed pictures, you can just see the crush tube brigade rubbing their hands in glee !!!!!

I hope your business grows from strength to strength.

but with your obvious skill im sure it will.

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Hi guys and thank you all for your observations.

First off those are not crush tubes. The rear shock on the Can-Am has a lower mount apparently designed by a five year old with an Etch-a-Sketch. This fine piece of engineering has two vertical plates welded to the swingarm with a 10mm hole in each. As the plates are vertical and too (IMO) widely spaced they have then placed a 115mm long tube between the two. As the OE tube has an OD of 17.56mm I have had made some replacement tubes with a precise 18mm OD (10mm ID) to suit the shock fixing which has 18mm ID du bushes inserted. The two black plastic components on either side are no more than spacers to centralise the shock which mimics the OE set-up.

The big difference between motorcycle monoshocks and kit car units is the loading seen by the shock. We regularly see spring rates of 1200 lbf/in and can go up to 1800 lbf/in on some special applications. This has a huge knock on effect over the whole shock from the spherical bearings we use to the seals and all the other materials employed.

There are plenty of other differences too and to build a shock that is capable of handling all that and going to mileages of 100,000 plus means that we spend a lot of money on the components. Without giving specific examples I know that certain components on my shock are over ten times more expensive than those used on most kit car units. Both units are properly engineered. it's just a question of horses for courses.

Hope all that helps.

All the best,

Mike

That sounds fair enough! Thanks for the explanation.