Classic Dirt Bike

DIRT PRODUCTS

1. Motorcycle life's ups and downs ...

...can be smoothed by a decent set of forks. Once the idea of putting a couple of different diameter tubes together came about, controlled by a spring and oil to give a wider range of movement at the front of a motorcycle, life got a lot easier for us dirt bike riders. In the early days, as long as the front went up and down it was okay, then clever people began thinking 'what if we use different springs and oil and valves and ... ' then things got even better.

With better machine tools and better quality control than the old British factories, REH forks which grace the majority of top Pre-65

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