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Project TTF2 rumbles back into life...

I needed a rear shock for a TTF2 project bike I’m building. But what to buy?

Bearing in mind this bike houses a prehistoric Ducati Pantah engine in a steel tube frame and sits on 18in wheels, was spending six or seven hundred quid-plus on a full spec race unit worth the money?

No.

For this old-school race bike all I needed was the right stroke, eye-to-eye length, spring weight (350lb/in) and the right damping parameters to work with the non rising-rate shock linkage. Seeing as I’ve been waiting for nearly two years (!) for a friend to build me a shock as a ‘favour’ it has recently become evident that I’d actually have to dig deep and just buy one.

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