Italian suspension specialist Matris has been manufacturing some of the "best speed-sensitive dampers in the world for a long time" with a design that reacts to sudden movements by automatically increasing their damping without restricting movement at slow speeds.
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The short wheelbases and high-performance engines of modern sportbikes, by their nature, are more inclined to "nervous, twitching movement", regardless of frame or suspension design.
Matris' new steering damper design improves the control the rider has of the front axle, damping all the oscillations and the rapid setting changes. The SDK and SDR dampers are said to reduce shaking of the front wheel and provide greater safety at high speeds.
Matris steering dampers "offer 13 or 16 'active', fully adjustable, hydraulic damping options with calibrated holes and micrometric points of resistance and hardness - Matris' 'speed-sensitive' progressive hydraulic damping system".
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The twin tube system with titanium external cylinder and aluminium alloy coaxial internal cylinder and high tensile alloy steel single piston rod, hard chrome coating and lapped finish with PVD TIN (Titanium Nitride) surface treatment effectively delivers "zero" stiction - the friction which tends to prevent stationary surfaces from being set in motion.
They have an external tank for controlled heat compensation of fluid expansion, pressurised with nitrogen gas for greater stability at high operating temperatures.
MATRIS S.R.L.
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