The DR650 is probably the best bike to own to do a whole lot of everything ! Commute, trail ride, adventure ride, all in one easy to work on no frills japanese made package

The only thing that we hear is the suspension isnt up to scratch, especially the ones now with a few kms on, and needing a freshen up.

Start with the front end by dropping in our Platinum valves !

We have been making performance valves for damper rod forks since 2007. we started with a simple poppet valve design we called them the V4S valve. These worked as well as any other poppet style valve and we made a few changes to them over the years, cutting the bleed plates down to a 1.0mm bleed hole and making iteasy to drill more if you desired.

Around 2019 Tom Foster from Adventure rider Magazine and I got together and did a bunch of tetsing on every available DR650 valve I could find. From this test I set about designing a new valve that incorperated all the positive features i found in the valves I tested

Whats different about this Platunum valve over everything else?

We designed the valve to work with a 2.5-3wt fluid. this serves two purposes. The light fluid renders the stock damper rod orifice based damping inneffective, so no requirement to drill the holes out. Second, the light fluid is more suited to a cartrige system with valves (shims) where we want posts to close sooner and reduce fluid mass.
The valve controls both compression. This isn't an easy function for a drop in damper rod valve to perform.
The valve can have its specification easily changed with 6mm shims. The supplied setting suits a lot of applications. There are bleed shims on both faces of the valve, they can be changed to create more or less bleed.
There are 4 outer sealing rings, these allowed us to make significant improvements in low speed sealing
The valve was initally brass with an electroless nickel coating. We have since changed to 7075 alloy with hard anodising.

Whilst not absolutely necessary we also reccomened upgrading the springs to suit your rider weight at the same time - have a look at our Teknik Motorsport DIY fork and complete package deals.

Platinum Valve installation instructions are included just in case.

Please note: If you are replacing the fork oil seals and dust wipers the high friction of the OEM seals will affect the performance of the Platinum valves - but will reduce after they are broken in.