Gold Valves

What is a Gold Valve - It's just a much better damping medium.
The Gold Valve Damping System improves control, traction, bottoming resistance Fork Gold Valves and provides a firm but plush ride. The Gold Valve replaces the original stock pistons in the Forks or Shock. Superior oil flow from a redesigned piston Ensures minimum harshness, along with specific valving for your weight and riding style, all working towards achieving your own personal suspension setup. Due to mass production considerations it's impossible for manufactures to set up a stock bike for everyone. Add to this the design limitations with most stock pistons and you soon find a considerable amount of room for improvement.Gold valves optimize the flow area of the piston placing valving control on the shim stack. This results in outstanding tunability. The Gold Valve system is a proven bolt-on valving system that improves performance by efficiently managing fluid flow where it is most critical. Given that oil is a non-compressable fluid, maximum flow ensures minimum harshness.

  • Computer Engineered for optimum flow
  • Low friction sealing design
  • Dramatic improvement in ride quality
  • Wide range of adjustability
  • Personal custom valving setup utilizing the Race Tech DVS™

Fork Gold Valves

What does the ultimate front end feel like? It's controlled, doesn't dive excessively, it's firm yet plush at the same time. Stock cartridge forks, at best, can be a compromise and some are downright poor. Race Tech's original bolt-on fork valving system for cartridge Shock Gold Valves forks helps to alleviate many of the problematic symptoms of hydrualic motion control. Stock valving pistons can have very restrictive ports. Given that oil cannot compress, This makes it almost impossible to get the ultimate results with the inadequate flow pistons. Gold valves maximise the flow area putting the valving control directly on the shim stack instead of the piston. This results in outstanding tunability, improved control, traction, plushness and bottoming resistance. Type 2 Gold Valve are specifically designed for Supercross and very aggressive motorcross applications. Like the original Gold Valve but designed for when more bottoming resistance is required.

Shock Gold Valves

The Race Tech Gold Valve is a revolution in damping control. Increased flow area puts valving control on the shim stack for outstanding tuneability from Trail to Supercross. Improved, long wearing, low friction sealing design decreases fade.

Gold Valve Assembly

Gold Valve Assembly

Some motorcycles use inexpensive, "old style" compression valves which have very limited performance capilities. The adjustable Gold Valve Assembly includes state-of-the-art Gold Valves as well as externally adjustable low-speed compression damping. Provides more control, a smoother ride and more bottoming resistance. Used in XR400, CR 80/85, RM85. Also available is the new "Alessi" valve - has the settings used for Mike and Jeff Alessi.

Rebound Gold Valves

Rebound Gold Valves

Many rebound valving systems are grossly inadequate. No matter what modifications are attempted, the forks will never perform the with presision and control of Race Tech improved units. Rebound Gold Valves are available for selected street and racing applications and have been used extensively by major road race teams. Also now available for the most 85cc motocrossers as well as KLX, TTR, DR and XR250s